page_title: Yemisi Aribisala
section_title: Prizes and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Yemisi Aribisala / Prizes and honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Yẹ́misí Aríbisálà at home with a pestle and mortar.
context_page_description: 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.
  Aribisala is renowned for her work in documenting Nigerian food as an entry point to thinking and understanding the culture and society. Her first book, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex, and the Nigerian Taste Buds, won the John Avery Prize at the André Simon Book Awards 2016.
  She currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa, with her children.
context_section_description: In January 2017, Aribisala's debut book Longthroat Memoirs won the John Avery Prize at the André Simon Book Awards 2016.
  In March 2017, Aribisala was listed as one of the 100 inspiring women in Nigeria in 2017.
  On 13 February 2018, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups Sex & Nigerian Taste Buds was shortlisted for the 2018 Art of Eating Prize. https://artofeating.com/prize/short-list/
  In the May 2018 Gourmands World Cookbook Awards, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups Sex & Nigerian Taste Buds won second place in the category of Best in the World in African Cuisine.
caption: "The pestle and mortar, tools of subjugation? Not by any stretch of the cultural imagination." [15]
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