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JJ Bola is an established writer, poet and UNHCR Ambassador. His three poetry collections - _Elevate_(2012), _Daughter of the_ _Sun_(2014), and _WORD_(2015) - were published in one collection, _Refuge_(2018), which was read out in the House of Commons during Refugee week in 2018. He was one of Spread the Word's Flight Associates 2017 and a Kit de Waal Scholar for the Birkbeck University MA in Creative Writing. As a former refugee, JJ Bola was invited to the Davos Economic Forum 2018 and held a discussion with Cate Blanchett. His debut novel, _No Place to Call Home_ , was published in the UK in 2017, and in 2018 in North America. His non-fiction book _Mask Off_ : _Masculinity Redefined_ , which exposes masculinity as a socially conditioned performance, was published in the UK in 2019. JJ speaks and performs both internationally and in the UK.