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As a mixed-race African and adoptee I feel, paradoxically, oppressed and completely free....My adult life has been largely devoted to healing this ri… - Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
" "As a mixed-race African and adoptee I feel, paradoxically, oppressed and completely free....My adult life has been largely devoted to healing this rift. The freedom of my paradoxical position, is in fact that I don't have the constraints of a traditional role and I have access to the world.
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About Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Born 17 February 1966 (age 59) Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa Nationality South African Education Rhodes University; University of the Witwatersrand; Lecoq International School of Theatre; Lancaster University Occupation(s) Poet, performance artist Notable work The Everyday Wife (2010) Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 17 February 1966) is a South African writer and performance artist who performs her work nationally and internationally. 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 biracial daughter of an Australian mother and a Ghanaian father who was adopted and raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa.
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I became Phillippa Yaa when I found my biological father, who told me that if he had been there when I was born, the first name I'd have been given would be a day name like all Ghanaian babies, and all Thursday girls are Yaa, Yawo, or Yaya. So by changing my name I intended to inscribe a feeling of belonging and also one of pride on my African side.
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