Getting to know our participants Art of Human Rights Article 28. Children, South African Bill of Rights Introducing Phillippa Yaa de Villiers; poet, writer, performing artist, born 17 February 1966. She is noted for her poetry, which has been published in collections and in many magazines and anthologies, as well as for her autobiographical one-woman show, Original Skin, which centres on her confusion about her identity at a young age, as the bi-racial daughter of an Australian mother and a Ghanaian father who was adopted and raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa. De Villiers studied in South Africa and in France and spent some time living in Los Angeles before returning to settle in Johannesburg, South Africa, while continuing to read and perform her work nationally and internationally. I started writing poetry when I was a child, my first published poem was when I was 11 . I was brought up in a home that loved poetry and literature, especially the English language. But it was only when I was older that I realized that writing is so much more than words playing on a page. Writing contains the writer, their concerns, their social context and their history. My own history became a block to my creativity as I started to explore my identity as a black woman adopted by a white family in apartheid South Africa. I felt like the colonized and the colonizer were fighting each other inside my brain.- Phillippa Yaa de Villiers. Read more here: philyaa.bookslive.co.za/
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