Create News 15: Gabriel Gbadamosi on Representation and Diversity

Gabriel Gbadamosi on Representation and Diversity

I was born by a river

I grew up in London, within the sound of Big Ben, a short walk to the Houses of Parliament. It was a lively, crowded place of poor, largely immigrant families and bomb-damaged houses. Our first playgrounds were bomb sites. We were living on the ruins of a city our parents came to rebuild. We thought everyone was like us…