Christopher Vourlias When she was a young girl growing up in the U.K., where she was born and spent most of her early life, classmates would struggle with Mosunmola Abudu’s name.
One took to calling her “Monsoon.” Another called her “Mozambique.” In Yoruba, the name Mosunmola roughly translates as someone who is close to wealth, but the elegant appellation so flummoxed friends and neighbors that they eventually settled on a pared-down, characteristically British shorthand. “I got stuck with Mo,” Abudu tells Variety.As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, who moved to the U.K.
to pursue their higher education, Abudu was frequently ostracized in school. “The students were not kind,” she says flatly. Racism was a fact of her everyday life in.
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