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Known for. Textile artist. Spouse. Twins Seven Seven (divorced) Website. www .nikeartfoundation .com. Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), also known as Nike Okundaye, Nike Twins Seven Seven and Nike Olaniyi, is a Nigerian Yoruba and adire textile designer. She is best known as an artist for her cloth work and embroidery pieces.
Akwete cloth is a hand woven textile produced in Igboland for which the town of Akwete, also known as Ndoki, both which the cloth was named after in Abia state, Nigeria is famous. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Alternative names include "Aruru" meaning "something woven", "Mkpuru Akwete" and "Akwete fabric". [ 4][ 3] This traditional Igbo weaving processes sisal ...
Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
Shade Thomas-Fahm, born Victoria Omọ́rọ́níkẹ Àdùkẹ́ Fọlashadé Thomas (but known colloquially and professionally as " Shadé Thomas "), is a Nigerian fashion designer. She regarded as Nigeria 's first modern fashion designer" [ 1][ 2] and pioneer. [ 3] She was the first fashion designer to open a fashion boutique in Nigeria. [ 4]
potter. Ladi Kwali or Ladi Dosei Kwali, OON NNOM, MBE (c.1925 – 12 August 1984) [ 1] was a famous Nigerian potter, ceramicist and educator. [ 2] Ladi Kwali was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was an indigenous occupation among women. [ 3] She learned pottery as a child through her aunt ...
Adire (textile art) Adire ( Yoruba) textile is a type of dyed cloth from south west Nigeria traditionally made by Yoruba women, using a variety of resist-dyeing techniques. [ 1][ 2] The word 'Adire' originally derives from the Yoruba words 'adi' which means to tie and 're' meaning to dye. [ 3] It is a material designed with wax-resist methods ...
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. [ 1 ] It depicts the events of pre-colonial life in Igboland, a cultural area in modern-day southeastern Nigeria, and the subsequent appearance of European missionaries and colonial forces in the late 19th century.
The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose remains date from at least 13,000 BC through early civilizations such as the Nok culture which began around 1500 BC. Numerous ancient African civilizations settled in the region that is known today as Nigeria, such as the Kingdom of Nri, [ 1] the Benin Empire, [ 2] and the ...