Yasmina Nuny Silva
Journalism and Communications
Yasmina Nuny Silva is a writer and poet from Guinea-Bissau. She completed her undergraduate studies in Political Economy at the University of Birmingham, where she also specialised in African Studies.
She has articles published in EuroNews Green and World Politics Review, and has performed at events like Sofar Sounds and TEDx University of Birmingham. Her debut collection Anos Ku Ta Manda was published in 2019 with Verve Poetry Press.
“Yasmina has what so many poets spend careers trying to cultivate: a voice entirely her own.”
— Sean Colletti, author of ‘Saeculum’