Yejide Kilanko

Chatham, ON

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Bio

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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"My love for reading anything I could lay my hands on led to poetry writing when I was twelve. It was the best way I made sense of all those long, angst-filled teenage and young adult years."

"I live in Chatham, Ontario where I continue to write poems, short stories, and novels."

Source: Yejide Kilanko's public Writer Bio page. This is featured here as a source-attributed public excerpt rather than as a poem transcription.

About their Yoruba identity

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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