Yewande Akinse

Education Yewande Akinse was born on September 25, 1992, in Lagos, Nigeria. She attended St. Mary’s Private School in Ajele, Lagos before moving on to the Holy Child College, Lagos, where she completed her secondary education. She obtained her LL.B degree and LL.M degree at the University of Lagos. In 2014 she earned her B.L degree at Nigerian Law School.

She has over 110 published poems. Her works include the collections "A Tale of being, of green and of ing.." (2019) and "Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories" (2016).

In 2021, Akinse became one of 15 young African entrepreneurs to win the first edition of the African Youth Adaptation (YouthADAPT) Solutions Challenge.

In 2022, Ex-President, Muhammadu Buhari appreciated her for emerging as one of the top four winners in the Commonwealth Youth competition, at the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Kigali, Rwanda.

On 8 September 2022, she emerged as the winner of the World Bank YouthActonEDU Spoken Word Prize.

Books A Tale of being, of green and of ing (2019) Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories (2016)

Awards and recognition Tory Burch Entrepreneur Fellow 2024 African Adaptation Solutions Challenge Commonwealth Youth Green Guru Award Best Graduating Student, Holy Child College, 2008 2013, Fidelity Bank Prize for Creative Writing 2019, ⁠The Guardian Newspaper (TGN) Prize for Poetry 2020, Project Knucklehead Prize for Creative Rebellion ⁠World Bank YouthActonEDU Spoken Word Prize, 2022 Allergan Aesthetics & IFundWomen Business Grant Award