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Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent was born on the 15th of September 1987. He comes from a small village in Ogoni called Luubara. The village which is a ten minutes drive to the birth town of Ken Saro-Wiwa, an environmental activist. A trained poet who watched the likes of Gabriel Okara and Ken Saro Wiwa use words so perfectly in honing the abuses of the Nigeria Nation to the outside world, Nwilo also promised to make grounds like his predecessors. He eventual ventured into writing from an early age. Doing poetry with all his might on radion in the city of Port harcourt on an Open Mic session conducted by a Nigerian Veteran on-air personality, LD of Rhythm 93.7 he self-published a collection of poems he titled 'Stories from Bori and Other Poems' where in seventy poems he talked about the failed state of the human society ruled by human themselves and opted for a vacation from earth. The collection which is dedicated to the memory of the Late human right activist, Ken Beeson Saro Wiwa officially reintroduced him as a poet.

Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent, though young made moves to be fully represented in the wider world of literature. He collected another round of poems which he decided to only publish in the national daily of Nigeria, The Guardian, which he is doing successfully. As part of his call to set the conscience of mankind free of hatred and make equity viable he set up a non violent movement called Words Not Swords. As he progressed, Words Not Swords changed into a print literary magazine, showing younger writers and already marked writers to the people of the South-South of Nigeria as well as the Niger Delta.

Nwilo Bura-Bari's most anticipated short story collection 'Wet Waters From the Creek of Luubara' which resurrects the condoned Nigeria/Biafra Civil War of 1967 which lasted for about three years has already won hearts of critics with the way he positioned his characters making them neither Biafra nor the Nigeria Nation.

Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent resides in Port Harcourt, Nigeria where he was born.