“She Does Not Know Her Beauty” | Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo
Poet and recording artist Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo delivers a striking performance of her original poem. It begins: “She does not know her beauty / She thinks her brown skin has too many flaws / If she could see her image in the Unogbo River where her mother was born / She would know…”
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Filmed at TEDWomen 2010.
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