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AFRIKAN ARTS
KIKI ASONIBE
Nigerian Poet and Psalmist
Who is Kiki Asonibe?
Kiki Asonibe was born to the
late Mr Sunday and Mrs Eliza-
beth Moka and named Nkiruka
Moka. She lived and went to
school in Lagos until the early
90s. After her first degree in
Business Education from the
then Anambra State Universi-
ty Of Technology (Asutech) in
Enugu before the States were
divided, she began her trav-
els through countries in North
Africa, Middle East, West Africa
and a couple of countries in
Europe. She was in and out of
Nigeria for about 20 years be-
fore finally returning to Nigeria
in 2009 and settling in Lagos.
“Kiki” as she is generally known
today, has two lovely daughters
and a grandson, loves to read,
cook, write, travel and house-
keep. She has retired from any
active work, enjoys the quiet
life of meditations and writing
psalms and poetry.
When did you start your
walk with God and what
has the experience been
like?
I honestly will say that my walk
with God started in 2009, when
I returned finally to Nigeria from
the United Kingdom. I don't
want to count the years of being
born again, being a church
goer, an active participator in
church activities, church group
committees and all that be-
cause, for me, unless you have
a precise understanding of the
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experiences that make up your
lifestyle in the kingdom of God,
you can't boldly say you have a
walk with God, you may proba-
bly say you have been happen-
ing into things consciously or
otherwise but that's all it can be. dropped every financial activi-
In 2009, l began to notice that
some of the events that were
happening in my life were not
just coincidental, so I became
more attentive to events around
me but somehow, honestly I
don't know how I knew it then,
I was sure they were not hu-
manly orchestrated but I didn't
understand why God would let
such things happen to me. In
fact sometime in 2009, I can't
remember the exact month,
a pastor friend of mine told
me that God said to tell me to
stop every financial activity I
was involved in, business and
otherwise and that He, God, is
and will be my sole provider. I
stared at the pastor knowing
this could not have come from
him and at the same time, won-
dering how I was going to take
care of my daughters, who at
that time were 9 and 17 years
old. Hmmmmm! God is faithful.
Anyway I did continue dabbling
into things which, of course, all
failed.
By my birthday in 2010, I
prayed to God to please end
this life for mine because I did
not see any need for it. Come
to think of it, He did end it, be- walk with God, experiencing
cause the day after my birthday
which was the 9th of November
I bumped into the pastor friend
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of mine who told me about a
fellowship he attends that is for
people who are looking for a
deeper life with God. I followed
him to Jordan Ministries, and
within a few weeks I confidently
ty I was involved in and a few
months down, every finance I
had or saved finished. My life
entered into another kind of sto-
ry, it started becoming clearer
to me what God meant by being
my sole provider.
Exchanges began to happen, I
became like one who had found
a valuable Pearl and was willing
to sell off every other thing for
that single pearl. Joy and peace
began to take the place of anx-
iety, faith for fear, stability for
indecisiveness, understanding
for vagueness. Pictures fitted
into storylines that confirmed a
precise walk with God by the
leading of the Holy Spirit, my
meditations and writing inten-
sified, things that looked like
mysteries started becoming
clearer, I realized nothing was
a coincidence, everything that
had happened to me up until
then were all plans in the life of
my walk with God. It's incred-
ible. I stayed in Jordan Minis-
tries for a while and later moved
on, thanking God always for the
good, the bad and the ugly, for
it all worked and is still working
together for good in my life and
Him in deeper understandings
of His thoughts and ways,
submitting to His will as a living
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