In 1998, when a young Titilope Sonuga arrived in Edmonton with her Nigerian family, the weather felt like “the coldest day of my life,” she recalls. My own family — who immigrated from Dominica to Ontario in the 1970s — can attest to the fact that the climate in Canada can be harsh for those with African and Caribbean roots, even outside of the winter months.
Twenty-three years after her family first touched down, we commissioned Sonuga — now a celebrated artist, award-winning author, mother of two beautiful children and poet laureate of Edmonton — to reflect on that first
