Living in flux: navigating hyphenated identities
Ore Ogunbiyi & Chelsea Kwakye |
TEDxLondonWomen
• December 2019
What does it mean to have more than one identity? Being Black Nigerian-British and Ghanian-British respectively, Ore Ogunbiyi and Chelsea Kwakye know how it feels to navigate the tensions of hyphenated identities. From the pressure to assimilate to the feeling of being constantly in flux, the challenges of having your identity regularly reconstructed, questioned and misunderstood are manifold. Ore and Chelsea share how questioning the conventional narratives around migration and confronting Britain’s colonial past helped them to plant roots as part of the African diaspora.