Black Passport: A Migrant's Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781069803405)

Paul Akpomuje is the co-convener of several community poetry events, including The Poetics of Migration, which brings poetry into dialogue with community stories to explore displacement, belonging, and the burdens of travelling while black. His work has appeared in multiple anthologies, including the 2025 volume I?ll Get Right On It (Fernwood Publishing), and has been featured at art festivals such as ArtFest Kingston 2025. He is the first recipient of the International Ontario Graduate Scholarship in the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, where he researches the visa stories of Nigerian immigrants in Canada. Before migrating to Canada, he taught at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria. He currently lives in Kingston, Ontario.