Minna Salami is of Nigerian and Finnish heritage. She grew up in Nigeria, leaving in her teen years for Sweden where she completed studies in Political Science. Thereafter she has lived in Spain, New York and now London. She is a writer, a performance poet and a blogger with great interest and intense love for the African continent, its people and its development. Her short stories have been published in magazines like Daydream, and upcoming anthology called Hyperkinetic. Salami's blog,