Michaela DePrince tells of being called a 'devil child', hiding a magazine cover in her underwear and prejudice in balletHer father was murdered by gunmen, her mother starved to death and Michaela DePrince was branded a "devil child" at her orphanage because of a rare skin condition. Then, as civil war raged around her in Sierra Leone, a vision came as if from another world.Outside the orphanage gates was a magazine …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:53AM on July 16, 2012