
JJ Bola
J.J. Bola
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JJ Bola is a Kinshasa-born, British-French poet, writer and educator, based in London. He has written three collections of poetry as well as two novels, No Place to Call Home (2017) and The Selfless Act Of Breathing (2021), and a non-fiction book about masculinity and patriarchy for young people, Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (2019). His writing explores themes of displacement and belonging.
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- 1986Born
Trivia
- •Place of birth: Kinshasa
- •Citizenship: United Kingdom
- •Known as: poet, writer, lecturer
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