Yinka Sunmonu

Yinka Sunmonu (born 1962) is a British writer and journalist.[1]

Life

Yinka Sunmonu was born in 1962 in London. She gained a BA in English, African and Caribbean Studies and a MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths' College.[1]

Sunmonu contributed a story to the 1999 anthology Afrobeat: New Black British Fiction.[1] Her first novel, Cherish, followed the conflicts of a Nigerian girl privately fostered by a white family.[2]

An expert on adoption and fostering in the black community,[1] Sunmonu has also written on dementia care in the black community.[3][4] She has written for Aspire Magazine, West Africa, Community Care, Woman to Woman, The Voice, Foster Care and Adoption & Fostering.[1]

Works
  • 'Why black carers are deterred from adoption'. Adoption & Fostering, Vol. 24, Issue 1 (April 2000), pp.59–60.
  • Cherish. London: Mango Publishing, 2003.

References
  1. Alison Donnell (2002). "Sunmonu, Yinka". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 290–291. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
  2. John James, Yinka Sunmonu, The Guardian, 5 November 2003. Accessed 30 August 2020.
  3. Sunmonu, Breaking the Silence, The Voice, 18 September 2012. Accessed 30 August 2020.
  4. Sunomnu, Should I Put My Elderly Relative In A Care Home?, The Voice, 24 January 2016. Accessed 30 August 2020.
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