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       Titilope Sonuga was born in Lagos but moved to Canada at age 13. With a degree in civil engineering she worked five years as an engineer using her spare time to pursue her poetic and acting ambition.        Eventually she left her career in engineering to follow her dreams.      In 2011, she won the Canadian Authors Association award as an emerging writer.        In 2012, she won the Maya Angelou poetry contest. She established the 'rouge poetry' a poetry slam series in Edmonton, Canada.       In May 2015, she became the first poet to perform at a Nigerian presidential inauguration. She performed at the presidential inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari.       She has also performed at the Lagos International Poetry Festival.   She published a collection of her poems in 2016.     She's married and i...