Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Ijeoma Umebinyuo is a poet from Nigeria and considered one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s best modern poets. She started writing at the age of 7 and her short stories and poems have appeared in publications such as: The Stockholm Review of Literature, The Rising Phoenix Review and The MacGuffin. Her TEDx talk was called "Dismantling The Culture of Silence". She has a book of poems called Questions for Ada and her work has been translated into many languages, including Turkish, Portuguese, Russian and French.