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âAs creators we have a duty to be storytellers,â says the British designer Nicholas Daley on a Zoom call. âWhether itâs me through fashion and design, or Akinola through film, we have an opportunity to shine a light on the community.â Daley is discussing âReturn to Slygo,â the multimedia exhibition based around his work and story that opens today at the Now Gallery on Londonâs Greenwich Peninsula. Pandemic-delayed but now good to go, the show unpacks the lineage from which Daley has crafted his in-fashion-enunciation of a Black British experience that is simultaneously uniquely his and adjacent to myriad others across this nationâs post-colonially shaped ethnic kaleidoscope.