Raphael Dada

Email: ad.dada1@outlook.com

Website: www.artbyadrafa.com



A photo of a woman with a bag emerging from a London Underground station.
Lagos to London, 2021.

This piece details the journey of a young Nigerian woman arriving to the UK for the first time, unaware of what awaits her in this country, she is filled simultaneously with both fear and excitement.





Fèyíṣètàn, Video, 2021.

Fèyíṣètàn, translated from Yoruba; use this (child) to tell a story. This piece details the journey of a young Nigerian woman arriving to the UK for the first time, unaware of what awaits her in this country, she is filled simultaneously with both fear and excitement.





The Labours of Heroes Past/ When The Sea Brought Strangers to Our Land, Video, 2022.

An exploitation into the complex relationship between Nigeria and Britain and the effects which British colonial rule had on the country and how the reverberations are still being felt in the country today.