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Mayowa Oyewale

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Photo credit: David Olayide.

Mayowa Oyewale writes from Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he currently attends Obafemi Awolowo University. He’s a reader at Chestnut Review.

Poems by Mayowa Oyewale
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