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“We were kicked out of McDonald’s,” she says of her black friendship group. “It wasn’t actually us that caused the trouble, but the police were called to McDonald’s and every single one of my friends got kicked out. Tme … Something went on with a white group of people, and the police showed up and straight away went to our table without asking any questions.”

Jade has a lot of black friends from similar Nigerian backgrounds, which means she’s always had someone to talk to about her identity issues. She says she is looking forward to visiting Nigeria for the first time in the next year, and sometimes talks as though everyday racism is something that happened to my generation, but not her own.

“My brothers went through racism as well, and because there’s an age gap they grew up quite a long time before me,” Jade says. “Racism was actually quite bad when they were growing up … They repeat to me a lot of the time: ‘You’re a black girl growing up in a white man’s world. You need to keep your head down, and don’t ever let it get to you.’”

Olukoga, who is one of three girl triplets, remembers her older brother often having “the talk” about racism with her father. “It’s something that’s been discussed in my house, but always directed towards my brother – he’s a black guy, he has to be aware,” she says. “With me and my sisters, it was never really explicit. It was more like ‘watch your tone of voice’, that kind of thing. And watch what you wear, because you’re over-sexualised [by adults].”