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Adwoa Aboah

Why Adwoa Aboah is such a positive role model

Model Adwoa Aboah has written an open letter talking about her “shame” growing up mixed race.

Aboah – who was born in London to an English mother and Ghanaian father – has written in Elle: “I, like many others before and after me, never felt as though I fit in. I wasn’t white enough, nor was I black enough.”

She adds: “I wanted so much to conform, to be like everyone else –...