Who Is The Real Dami Hope?
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Welcome to We're Talking. In this episode, I sit down with Love Island's Dami Hope to talk about his Nigerian roots, growing up in Ireland, and the moments that shaped his identity.
How did Dami Hope's family journey from Nigeria to Ireland shape his early childhood?
So I think in order to get to know who you are, let's go to the roots. To the roots. The roots.
And I feel like the roots are Nigeria. The roots are Nigeria. And it's something I'm proud of. I'm proud of being Nigerian. I'm proud of my family. I'm proud of what my family did to try to give us a better life because my dad He was a dreamer. He's the reason why we probably migrated to Ireland. Yes. And, like, just as a kid, I can remember, like, you know, flashes of, like, me getting to this point where we're in Ireland. Obviously, probably not legally or whatever. Because, you know, we're very clever people. Very clever. Very clever people. So it's like... Obviously, there's a plan in place to how to like, you know, to to make sure we're able to stay here. And I feel like back in them days was a bit easier as opposed to now.
Because this is the 90s. Yeah. Yeah. I say 90s. I was born in 96. Okay. I think I was in Nigeria till like maybe I was about three years old. And from there, I remember me and my little sister, she was two years after me. So it was just me and her. And then it was me and my mom. and then my dad and then you know he'd bring us over to Ireland and I remember I think at first we used to like we used to live in a hostel with like a bunch of like loads of different people because obviously when you come to this place it's like you're trying to find a place for your you know for your family and for yourself and I remember like little flashes of just like it's just like as a kid you can remember just little dots of moments of like
oh, I'm in this hostel, I can see my mom playing chess with, you know, people that she's just making friends with in this situation. And I know everybody was against him doing this, because I remember my grandmother told me, because my mom's from my grandmother's side, and she told, she was like, we don't have to, you know, to go and do all these things. But obviously he wanted to make something out of himself for the family. I remember this memory of like my dad, I was sitting on my dad's lap and then he has a car and he's like, I'm sitting on the lap and like my hands are holding it, but he's there. And I'm only like, I think at this point I'm only even just five years old, but it's a very vivid and clear imagery I have of him.
And then I remember alongside that we finally got like, I think an estate house. So now we actually got like a place and it was like maybe three bedrooms. It was like our first home there. And, you know, we're shifting from one house to another house. It's just me and my sister until obviously, you know, they start adding, you know, the new members now. That's the clever part for like why we're going to be able to stay here or whatever, you know. So they start adding them and then, you know. Can we expand on that? Because I get what you're saying. You get what I'm saying.
But if you could paint the picture, because I don't think your family is going to get in trouble. Because almost everybody was doing that. So it was you and your sister.
It was me and my sister first. We were Nigerian. We came from Nigeria. And then I think we had my younger brother. And he was now Irish. He was born in Ireland. And then every other sibling we had after that, me and my sister don't have any Irish or English names. But those lot... They got the names. He got David, they got Cynthia, they got Amanda. Me, it's just Femi and Dami.
What was life like as one of the only Black children in a small Irish town?
You know what I mean? It's just straight Nigerian. But the ones that came with the Irish passport, they got the names too.
Yeah, definitely. So with you coming in, I looked at that period of the late 1990s, early 2000s in Ireland. One, because I'm just fascinated about Ireland. But secondly, because you were coming. And I saw that that period was called the Celtic Tiger, where ireland traditionally had these low i mean these very high rates of uh high rates of unemployment but then during that period everything took off the economy took off and there was this great demand for service workers so much so that the population within ireland couldn't maintain it so i think that was your father being clever smart saying this is a great opportunity for me
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:25
2
How did Dami Hope's family journey from Nigeria to Ireland shape his early childhood?
0:25–3:47
3
What was life like as one of the only Black children in a small Irish town?
3:47–22:13
4
How did Dami describe acceptance versus moments of racial difference in school?
22:13–26:09
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