Mosa Telford: Winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature – Drama

Mosa Telford

As a child Mosa Telford struggled with the colour of her skin since  her dark complexion resulted in her peers teasing her mercilessly and she never felt that she was good enough.

“Growing up as a dark-skinned girl, I had many challenges, because you know when you are growing up a lot of people would have something bad to say about your complexion, so when I was growing up as a child I never felt that I was good enough, I never felt beautiful, I felt like something was wrong with my colour because