Yejide Kilanko
Chatham, ON
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Yejide Kilanko is a Nigerian Canadian writer and social worker living in Chatham, Ontario. She writes fiction and poetry, and this profile gives Yoruba.ca a reusable structure for spotlighting published work once a rights-cleared text, audio recording, or video reading is supplied.
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Kilanko has written publicly about being born in Ibadan and living in Ontario. Her author materials and public readings keep Yoruba memory close to migration, family, proverb, and womanhood, which aligns naturally with a Yoruba Voices archive built for Canadian audiences.
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