All posts tagged "Profiles"
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32.8KProfilesThings 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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1.3KProfilesHow 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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1.5KProfilesKeturah 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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1.4K1Profiles“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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1.5KNewsThe 5 Nigerian Women on the 100 Most Reputable Africans List
Go women! You rock.
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1.2KProfilesListening 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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1.9K3ProfilesIfeoma 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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2.1KProfilesOtegha 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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1.9K11Personal StoriesFrom Nothing To Better Things! Mama Chichi’s Story Will 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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1.8KProfilesTola 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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4.3KProfilesHow 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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1.8KProfilesNnedi 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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1.7K1ProfilesAs 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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2.0KProfilesPlayrights 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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1.9KProfilesCynthia 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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1.8KProfilesHow 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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3.7KProfilesIheoma 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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2.6KProfilesThe 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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2.0KProfilesThe 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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2.7KProfilesAngel 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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1.4KProfilesHow 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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1.8KProfilesYagazie 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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1.6KProfilesSade 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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1.5KProfilesNike 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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1.5KProfilesOmolara 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...
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2.7KProfilesBeats by Dr. Dre Shines Its Spotlight on Nigerian Women’s Bobsled Team in Its Global “Above the Noise” Campaign
“You can live in your own legacy, but you’ve got to start somewhere. You’ve got to open the door. Our goal is...
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2.1KProfilesTV presenter Yewande Osamein Speaks On Life After She Moved From London To Lagos
Given the opportunity, many people would gladly relocate outside the country to a more developed and civilized country. But it is not...
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1.5KProfilesHow Omolabake Adenle Is Preserving African Languages by Digitizing Them
Many African languages are going into extinction, no thanks to westernization but a 35-year old woman is preserving as many that can...
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2.0K4ProfilesSimi Adeagbo Officially Becomes the First Nigerian, African and Black Female Athlete to Represent Nigeria as a Skeleton Athlete at the 2018 Winter Game
“Ultimately, for me, this is about breaking barriers in sports. It’s about making history. And leaving a legacy. It’s about moving sport...
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2.1K1ProfilesThey Told Her Women Should Not Drum, But Kasiva Mutua Went Ahead to Smash the Taboo
I've had my drums torn in rehearsal spaces. I've been publicly called out and asked why I would put a drum between...