2024: Winner, Anhinga Prize for Poetry

2024: Joy Currie Fellowship for Professional Travel, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

2024: Digital Humanities Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

2024: Semi-finalist, Philip Levine Poetry Prize. 

2024: Semi-finalist, Autumn Poetry Prize. 

2024: Semi-finalist, Black Lawrence Poetry Prize. 

2023: Second Place Award in Wilbur Gaffney/Academy of American Poets Award, hosted by Department of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

2023: Finalist, Kate Sommer Memorial Poetry Prize, organized by Nebraska Writers Collective Press. 

2022: Finalist, C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize . 

2022: Semi-finalist, Button Poetry Chapbook Prize.  

2022: Semi-finalist, Dorset Poetry Prize. 

2019: Fellow, Ebedi Writers’ Residency, Iseyin.

2018: Finalist, Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. 

2017: Finalist, Brunel International African Poetry Prize.  

2016: Finalist, Erbacce Poetry Prize.  

2014: Finalist, BNPA Poetry Prize.  

2013: Finalist, Korea Nigeria Poetry Prize.  

2013: Finalist, Christopher Okigbo Poetry Competition.  

 2012: Finalist, Ghana Poetry Prize.  

2011: First Runner-up, Christopher Okigbo Poetry Competition.  

2011: Finalist, Professor Remi Raji @50 Poetry Competition.