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Tolu’ A. Akinyemi set to headline at the Havering Literary Festival 2021

Multi-Award-Winning Nigerian Poet and Writer, Tolu’ A. Akinyemi will headline at the Havering Literary Festival 2021. The Newcastle Based poet and creative writer, who has authored thirteen books with five other forthcoming...

Black History Month: Not Enough Black Corporate Leaders

It’s Black History Month in the UK and it’s a time to reflect on the progress made in the last year or should I say ‘lack of progress’ going by the experience...

AML Compliance Program: More than a Box Ticking Exercise

According to Lexis Nexis Global True Cost of Compliance 2020 report, the projected total cost of financial crime compliance across financial institutions worldwide is $213.9 billion, up from $180.9bn dollars the previous year. The results...

Newcastle-Based Author writes his name in the annals of history with ‘Born in Lockdown’

Written by multi-award-winning author Tolu’ A. Akinyemi, ‘Born in Lockdown’ is a writer’s account of the coronavirus pandemic using poetry as a tool. The goal is to document the coronavirus pandemic era...

Covid-19 – Lessons from the eyes of a Keen Observer

As Freedom Day inches near and we are released from the shackles of government lockdowns which has been for the greater good. Even though they have not always led by example, think...

Making the Most of the Opportunities that abound as a creative.

In this pandemic era, the landscape of work and building new relationships has changed drastically. We now carry out most of our activities online. The last one year has been a season...

Two Poems |Tolu’ A. Akinyemi

F*ck – F*cking 2020 How do we scrub 2020 from our history books? How do we fuck it off as a one-off? The labels have left us weary, pandemic torn and broken....

Tolu’ A. Akinyemi |Baby o|Lyrics

I flex on this shit Don’t call me a rookie, my first song was a hit. Bruh, we say African to the World. This is the spoken word. I’m a poet. E...

2021: Hope is not Far Away

It’s a New Year. The fireworks that heralded us into the New Year had a different feel. It had to. 2020 was a torrid year on every front. The humongous number of...

I won an ‘Oscars’ Award

Yesterday, the 1st of December 2020, I won a prestigious Oscars award—for outstanding delivery. This is not an award from my pastime which is writing books and I really love writing books,...