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Tolu Oloruntoba

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Tolu Oloruntoba is a Nigerian-Canadian poet, physician, and public health professional. He is best known for his debut poetry collection, The Junta of Happenstance, which won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2021 Governor General's Awards and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2022. Born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, Oloruntoba trained as a physician before emigrating to Canada.

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