Yemisi Aribisala

Yemisi Aribisala is a Nigerian essayist, writer, painter, and food memoirist. She has been described as having a "fearless, witty, and unapologetic voice", and was named by Sarah Ladipo Manyika as one of seven bold and new international voices. Her debut book of essays is Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste Buds, using Nigerian food as an entry point to thinking and understanding culture and society.