Yayra erica nego biography sample

  • When Minneapolis native Erica Yayra Nego won the Miss Ghana title in , it touched off a global debate on colorism, or prejudice based on.
  • The winner, Yayra Erica Nego, was an American-born and Minnesota-raised biracial woman.
  • In writing School Girls, Bioh was inspired by the true story of Yayra Erica Nego, a Minneapolis-born biracial woman of Ghanaian heritage who.

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    Theater Review: The Funny, Fierce, Fearsome Competition of School Girls

    From School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play.Photo: Joan Marcus

    Earlier this year, I had a conversation with an artist of color who was fed up with being compared, even in the most complimentary mode, to vit artists that seemed to fill a similar niche. I’m paraphrasing here, but her point was: Stop using language that implies that a white individ was “there first.” man it possible for artists of color to be their own trailblazers, not an exotic version of someone else. Basically, don’t be Dick from High Fidelity when he describes Lisa Bonet’s character Marie De Salle as “Sheryl Crow–ish crossed with a post–Partridge Family, pre–L.A. lag Susan Dey kind of thing, but um … you know … black.”

    Jocelyn Bioh fryst vatten smartly tackling this pervasive kind of thinking right now at MCC in her funny and fast-paced School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play — starting with the show’s very title. There’s

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    BY CHARLIE DUBACH-REINHOLD

    SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY immerses us in the world of the Aburi Girls’ Boarding School, where the Miss Ghana pageant sweeps the students into a comedic frenzy. The year is It’s 30 years after Ghanaian activist and politician Kwame Nkrumah was released from prison—where he was held for initiating nonviolent noncooperation with the British colonial government—and elected President of the newly independent Ghana. Nkrumah had a profound influence on early decolonial thought. His goals to unify Africa, dismantle the oppressive structures of the colonial government, and combat white supremacy inspired successive movements around the continent and further abroad and had echoes and reverberations in the American Black Power movement. Though his presidency ended in a military coup, Nkrumah remains a beloved figure in Ghana, and his ideology undergirds pro-Black movements into the 21st century, such as those targeting colorism.

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    Review: School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play’

    How mean can schoolgirls from a top school in s Ghana be? Abena Serwaa, AKADi Magazine’s editor reviews School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play’ by Jocelyn Bioh

    Some girls can be mean. REALLY MEAN and in ‘School Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play’, Paulina (Tara Tijani) – the Queen B in her friendship circle - shows us the lengths to which she’s prepared to go to hold on to power.

    Paulina and her crew: best friend Ama (Heather Agyepong), Mercy (Bola Akeju), Gifty (Francesca Amewudah-Rivers), and Nana (Jadesola Odunjo) attend one of Ghana’s prestigious boarding schools – Aburi Girls’ Senior High School in the Eastern Region.

    A mixture of awe and fear keeps these girls glued to Paulina but we soon find out that her position is challenged and friendship dynamics start to unravel when new girl Ericka (Anna Shaffer) arrives.

    The new girl

    Ericka is American. She’s of mixed heritage (white A

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