“Fly like you are not worried about the days, months and years of getting older, because each day you live is the youngest you will ever be….So this is to all those with wings for feet who keep on running. Please do not run – fly.”

JJ Bola – TEDx Exeter 2018

JJ Bola

Reaching for a place to call home

Take a poetic journey to learn what it means to be a refugee with JJ Bola – writer, poet, educator, human.


JJ Bola, Writer, Poet and Educator. He has written three poetry collections, and is the debut author of No Place to Call Home.

Biography published 2018

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