Yasmina Nuny Silva

Yasmina Nuny Silva is a writer and editor from Guinea-Bissau. She completed her undergraduate
studies in Political Economy at the University of Birmingham, where she also specialised in African
Studies. Her debut collection Anos Ku Ta Manda was published in 2019 with Verve Poetry Press.

Do I accept me and mine as darkness? Perhaps I ought not to. For the generation that comes after us. To convince them as I have had to be convinced that there is so much light, life, in myself – in my kin – to give the world. But what do we keep giving ourselves to and for? Consumption, and consumption, why radiate if it is swallowed whole by the machinations of a coloniser?