{"id":40526,"date":"2025-11-04T06:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/uniting-the-cultures-of-nigeria-and-wales-through-pictures\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T06:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T06:27:47","slug":"uniting-the-cultures-of-nigeria-and-wales-through-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/uniting-the-cultures-of-nigeria-and-wales-through-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniting the cultures of Nigeria and Wales through pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His first book, My Story in Red, is a very personal project that weaves the warmth and vibrancy of Nigerian culture with the landscape and spirit of Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By using the colour red to represent love, courage, and transformation, the book looks at identity, nostalgia, and self-expression through symbolic elements like the <i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">g\u00e8l\u00e8<\/i> (head covering) and the <i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">f\u00ecl\u00e0<\/i> (cap).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">My Story in Red celebrates the strength and beauty of Nigerian identity, and invites people to reflect on home, tradition, and belonging, says Taiye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Mae ei lyfr cyntaf, My Story in Red, yn brosiect personol iawn sy&#8217;n plethu cynhesrwydd ac egni diwylliant Nigeria gyda thirwedd ac ysbryd Cymru. <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Wrth ddefnyddio&#8217;r lliw coch i gynrychioli cariad, dewrder a thrawsnewid, mae&#8217;r llyfr yn edrych ar hunaniaeth, hiraeth a hunan-fynegiant drwy elfennau symbolaidd fel y g\u00e8l\u00e8 (gorchudd pen) a&#8217;r f\u00ecl\u00e0 (cap). <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Mae My Story in Red yn dathlu cryfder a harddwch hunaniaeth Nigeria, ac yn gwahodd pobl i ystyried cartref, traddodiad a pherthyn, meddai Taiye.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/cymrufyw\/erthyglau\/czr1k0zzd45o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His first book, My Story in Red, is a very personal project that weaves the warmth and vibrancy of Nigerian culture with the landscape and spirit of Wales. By using the colour red to represent love, courage, and transformation, the book looks at identity, nostalgia, and self-expression through symbolic elements like the g\u00e8l\u00e8 (head covering) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[12517,3365,135,9305,312],"class_list":["post-40526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-pictures","tag-cultures","tag-nigeria","tag-pictures","tag-uniting","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40528,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40526\/revisions\/40528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}