All posts tagged "Profiles"
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263ProfilesA Peek Into Uche Pedro’s Life as The Founder of Bella Naija
Uche Pedro speaks on how she started her business and the challenges she has had to overcome to get to where she...
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352Profiles“This One Is For All The Small Girls In Villages Back Home In Nigeria” –Dreams Come True For Didi Emah And Kendra Onasanya As They Perform With Beyonce At Coachella
For Kendra Onasanya, it is a dream come true!
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5251ProfilesNdidi Nwuneli Talks About The Role Of Faith And Belief In Modern Africa
I live in the Lekki area of Lagos,and in my community, there are at least 50 really nice churches,but there’s no adult...
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450ProfilesNkiru Emodi Speaks On How She Started Her Shoe Making Business
A graduate of Accounting, 31-year old Nkiru Emodi was tired of being told that she needed some years of experience before she...
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326ProfilesHow Seyi Oluyole Uses Dance To Keep Street Kids In School
At 10, Seyi’s parents sold their house at Mile 2, which made them move around a lot. Finally, they rented a house...
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360ProfilesThings To Know About Arike Ogunbowale, The Basketball Player Who Made The ‘Shot Of A Lifetime’
Her shot will reportedly go down as the greatest last-second shot in championship game history as she was named the tournament’s most...
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370ProfilesHow Karen Okonkwo Is Transforming Stock Photography with Images of Diverse People and Their Stories
Karen was working on a project when she realized that she wasn't able to present any sort of diversity in her work...
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418ProfilesKeturah Adams Is Here To Ensure the Well-Being of Every Mother and Child
As a child, Keturah Adams was diagnosed with osteomyelitis — inflammation of the bone marrow — in her shoulder, which often left...
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424Profiles“Can A Woman Have It All?” The Price Morenike Toyin Folayan Has Paid For Her Successful Career
I think one of the things that probably made me call for a divorce was that I could not sacrifice my career...
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449NewsThe 5 Nigerian Women on the 100 Most Reputable Africans List
Go women! You rock.
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453ProfilesListening To Tomi Adeyemi Talk about Her Best Selling Book ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Is Super Satisfying
it has been described the biggest fantasy debut novel of 2018 and has obtained a movie deal reported to be worth seven...
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5163ProfilesIfeoma Fafunwa Is Staring Down Patriarchy In Nigeria Through Her Play ‘HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True’
Inspired by the generational stories of inequality and change, Ifeoma is telling the story of the issues affecting the lives of women...
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803ProfilesOtegha Uwagba Is Providing The Tools And Resources Women In The Creative Industry Need To Further Their Careers
The women she chose are those she knew would have interesting things to say, women who she admired and who would give...
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670Personal StoriesFrom Nothing To Better Things! Let Mama Chi’s Story Inspire You To Keep Moving
This woman started with selling 1 crate of beer, I know because I was one of her first customers. 1 crate of...
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737ProfilesTola Okogwu is Changing Perceptions of Race and Gender Roles with Her Series of Children’s Books
Tola wants to tackle the relationship between young black girls and their natural afro hair in a vibrant, entertaining and educational way.
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889ProfilesHow Funke Adeniji’s Intiative Is Empowering Women Through Sports Across Africa
...the series of challenges she faced on her journey led her to conclude that many women have limited options and opportunities to...
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639ProfilesNnedi Okorafor Is Opening Strange Doors Through Her Afrofuturist Writing, And She Is Taking The World In With Her
My science fiction has different ancestors, African ones. So, I’m Nigerian-American. I was born to two Nigerian immigrant parents and raised in...
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4951ProfilesAs Much As They Would Have Loved To Win, They Are Glad They Gave Their Best And Made History!
“It’s quite amazing, I’m overwhelmed with joy and overwhelmed with the idea of knowing that history was made and we gave everything...
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778ProfilesPlayrights Mfoniso Udofia and Ngozi Anyanwu Are Using Their Plays To Tell Nigerian Stories To The World
Ms. Anyanwu is the fourth female playwright born to African immigrants to have a play produced by a prestigious New York theater...
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661ProfilesCynthia Adaeze Bryte-Chinule Is Reducing The Rate Of Failure In Mathematics By Teaching Less Privileged And At-Risk Youths In Pidgin And Igbo Language
Cynthia is ensuring that children who are denied access to education because of poverty, understand mathematics, and she is doing this by...
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735ProfilesHow Adebola’s Work At Amazon Is Positively Affecting The Next Generation Of Leaders
Outside of Amazon, Adebola is a wedding singer. “I especially enjoy performing the song “At Last”” as the new bride and groom...
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1.0KProfilesIheoma Obibi On Starting And Running A Sex Toy Business In Nigeria
Iheoma sells sex toys and she revealed that she has many customers in Lagos, Zamfara, and Abuja. She also sells sex dolls.
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671ProfilesThe Founder Of The Mirabel Centre, Itoro Eze-Anaba Receives Commonwealth Point Of Light Award From Queen Elizabeth II
The Mirabel Centre, Nigeria’s first sexual assault referral center, was founded in 2013 and is said to have helped over 3,100 victims...
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496ProfilesThe Women Of The Rele Young Contemporaries Class Of 2018
22-year-old Abisola Gbadamosi is a water colour painter who has had her work shown in various exhibitions across Nigeria. Her works stem...
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1.3KProfilesAngel Adelaja Gives Us A Peek Into Her Farms Built Inside Shipping Containers
If our average age of a farmer in Nigeria is 60, then we need to do something. We need to get young...
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475ProfilesHow Yvonne Orji Steps Into Male-Dominated Spaces And Blow People’s Minds Away…
Are there great women out there doing amazing things, with a guy coming in not doing anything extravagant and everyone thinks what...
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807ProfilesYagazie Emezi to receive $3,000 Inaugural Creative Bursary Award from Getty Images
A self-taught photographer who started photography in early 2015, Yagazie has since been commissioned by the likes of the New York Times...
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747ProfilesSade Agboola Sets Up Taxi Company Where All The Drivers Will Be Women And Will Only Have Women And Children As Passengers
Sade launched her company, Annisa Cars, after hearing her friends who are mums complain about using public transport or private hire firms...
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554ProfilesNike Celebrates Simidele Adeagbo, The First Nigerian And African Female Skeleton Athlete
“Being first doesn’t always last but being the first to go where they said you shouldn’t, the first to do what they...
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577ProfilesOmolara Tayo-Sobajo Created Momineral Makeup Founder To Fill The Huge Gap In The Market For Natural Makeup Products For Black Women And Women Of Colour
Omolara Tayo-Sobajo holds a degree in Microbiology, worked as a freelance makeup artist for about 7 years and decided to bag an...