Dayo Okeniyi - About mom - 136182

"I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.“

-Dayo Okeniyi

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I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

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