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[iyanuadebiyi]

A few facts about me: . My name is Iyanuoluwa Adebiyi. Iyanuoluwa means the wonder (miracle, surprise) of God, but I fell in love with the literal meaning; the opening of God’s mouth. You can call me Iyanu (pronounced ee-yah-noo). . I would have been born a still birth but a nurse no one had seen before, would never see again, came to disrupt the procedure with prayer. After that, I was born with loud crying and squinting eyes. . I feel everything intensely and take time to process my feelings - art helps. I’ll . The skin on my fingers are quite wrinkled. I don’t know why but in them I see my grandfather’s hands playing the keyboard, when I am writing on my computer keyboard. I come from a lineage of creatives; my great grandmother was a praise singer, my grandfather played the keyboard and was an orator, my father was a poet when he was very young. He became a pastor the year I was born. . I’m a lawyer, writer and performance poet. I studied law in order to be an activist, only to discover that it is the poet in me that is the true activist. My core message is hope. . I love to use my hands a lot. Create things out of paper, make abstract drawings. I also create poetry videos and other content for social media platforms. . As a child, I was a member of a singing group called The Breakthrough Singers (composed of my sisters. My father used to teach us to sing. Now I don’t understand how that happened as he can’t even hold a key. . I spend at least 70% of my everyday alone. . My favourite food is pounded yam and egusi soup. I love all the earth and neutral colours. . Now, tell me about you. Who are you? What do you do or like? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #poetry #nigerianwriters #africanwriters #spokenwordpoet #igpoet #writersofinstagram #poetrycommunity #writingcimmunity #everythingnaart #enatribe #melaninbloggers #blackgirlswhowrite #wearenigeriancreatives #africanpoets #proudafrican #creativepreneur #abujabased #black #nigerianwomendiary https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WgXM-F60h/?igshid=1v7lxx1t4v3fj