Graciano Enwerem

Graciano Enwerem, also known as Sir Grrraciano, is an award-winning Poet, Multiple National Slam Champion, Writer, TEDx Speaker, and Media Consultant. He taught at Nasarawa State Polytechnic, Lafia, Nigeria. As the founder of Figures of Speech Movement Africa, his WhatsApp platform mentors poets in writing, performance, and branding for free. Over 20,000 poets have benefitted from his guidance since 2008. Notably, he is among the most widely-traveled Nigerian poets, having performed and taught in 34 of the 36 Nigerian States.

He launched Corona Verses on Instagram to spread positivity during the pandemic. Enwerem authored renowned works like “SPOKEN WORD POETRY-101,” “STICKZ AND STONEZ,” “HEY POET,” “JANUWORRY,” “HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE-POET IN WEEKS,” and “10 WAYS TO WRITE COMPELLING ADS,” selling over 9,000 copies of “SPOKEN WORD POETRY-101” within a few months.

Voted Nigeria’s top Contemporary Poet twice in the EGC rankings, he received recognition from the National Black Business Month in the USA for his poetry.

Advocating for poetry’s mainstream presence, Graciano believes a well-prepared beans and plantain dish can transform dire circumstances and prompt a person contemplating suicide to reconsider.