In conversation
Louisa Adjoa Parker in conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi
On being a mixed-race writer in the rural south-west of England, experiencing poverty, domestic violence, racism, and finding her voice.
5th October, 2022
'I found a ‘voice’, and I suddenly realised that I had so much I wanted to say about this experience of being mixed-race and living in the countryside and constantly being made to feel as though I don’t belong.'
Louisa Adjoa Parker
Louisa Adjoa Parker is a writer and poet of Ghanaian and English heritage who lives in south-west England.
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