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Birth Name:

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

Female

Birth Date:

Thu, Feb 17, 1966

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Hillbrow, Gauteng, South Africa

Age:

58

Zodiac Sign:

Aquarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

28°

Aqu

18'

About Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (born 17 February 1966) is an award-winning 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 bi-racial daughter of an Australian mother and a Ghanaian father who was adopted and raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa. She has written: "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. After growing up black in white South Africa, internalising so many negative 'truths' of what black people are like, I needed to reclaim my humanity and myself from the toxic dance of objectification." She has also said: "Because I wasn't told that I was adopted until I was twenty, I lacked a vocabulary to describe who I am and where I come from, so performing and writing became ways to make myself up." As Tishani Doshi observes in the New Indian Express: "Much of her work is concerned with race, sexuality, class and gender within the South African context."

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External Links:

• Phillippa Yaa De Villiers on Facebook.

• "Women’s Month Profile: Phillippa Yaa de Villiers", Alberton Record, 10 August 2016.

• Matthew Mokoena, "The Shedding Of Society’s Original Skin" (interview with Phillippa Yaa de Villiers), Consciousness Magazine, 19 May 2010.

• "Beyond Words – Interviews 2 Phillippa Yaa De Villiers". Vimeo.

• Phillippa Yaa de Villiers performing at The Drum, Birmingham, 31 October 2009. Sustained Theatre.

• "Phillippa Yaa De Villiers at Word 'n Sound, Johannesburg", 2011. YouTube.

• "The Quiet Conversation – Phillippa Yaa De Villiers (Poet). Fred Wisdom (Jazz guitar)", 2008.

• Phillippa Yaa de Villiers page at Passa Porta, International House of Literature in Brussels, 2009.

• Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (including podcast) at Badilisha Poetry X-change.

• "The poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers talks about her new collection, The Everyday Wife, with Janet van Eeden", Litnet, 3 June 2010.

• Phillippa Yaa De Villiers performs her Commonwealth Day poem at Westminster Abbey, 10 March 2014. The Royal Commonwealth Society, YouTube.

• Phillippa Yaa de Villiers reading at The Poetry Archive.

• Phillippa Yaa de Villiers at Lyrikline.

• MarLa Sink Druzgal, "Around the World with the Poetry of Phillippa Yaa de Villiers", Traveling Marla.

• Crystal Wilton, "Interview with Phillippa Yaa de Villiers", Odd Magazine, October 2017.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Phillippa Yaa de Villiers: Sun 28 Aquarius, Moon 25 Capricorn, Mercury 7 Pisces, Venus 28 Capricorn, Mars 14 Pisces, Jupiter 21 Gemini, Saturn 17 Pisces, Uranus 18 Virgo, Neptune 22 Scorpio, Pluto 17 Virgo, Sun Semi Sextile Venus, Mercury Conjunct Mars, Venus Semi Square Mars, Mars Conjunct Saturn, Mars Opposition Uranus, Mars Opposition Pluto, Jupiter Square Saturn, Jupiter Square Uranus, Jupiter Quincunx Neptune, Jupiter Square Pluto, Saturn Opposition Uranus, Saturn Trine Neptune, Saturn Opposition Pluto, Uranus Sextile Neptune, Uranus Conjunct Pluto

Categories related to Phillippa Yaa de Villiers: Living people, People from Johannesburg, February 17 births, 1966 births, Women anthologists, South African dramatists and playwrights, South African women poets, Women dramatists and playwrights, 21st-century South African women writers, 21st-century dramatists and playwrights, South African stage actresses, 21st-century South African actresses, South African people of Australian descent, Spoken word poets, South African people of Ghanaian descent, South African performance artists, South African adoptees, 21st-century South African poets, South African women