Yasmina Silva’s debut, Anos Tu Ka Manda, is as fresh and vital as her performance style. Combining English with strands of language from her home country of Guinea-Bissau, her poetry – so powerful, so listenable, combines a feminist outlook with a deep seated love of God, and focusses hard on issues surrounding the perception her Blackness and also her ownership of it. Her response is defiant, and also joyful and strong.