Fashioning Identities

How to be Nigerian
in Multicultural Britain

Uncles and aunties gathered at a New Year’s Eve party in London, smiling and dressed in colourful Nigerian clothing. Christmas decorations hang in the background, with drinks arranged in the foreground.
Party at uncle’s house
London, 12.31.2000
Image courtesy of Ofunne Oganwu

Rooted in family archives and community memory, this is a story of how British-Nigerians shape identity through dress.

Clothing has held culture close - carrying belonging, continuity, and the rituals that travelled with us. Honouring the ways we sustain culture as we adapt, what we wear becomes memory, meaning, and self-definition.

This is a story of how heritage is lived, worn, and passed on.