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“There are over 4000 women whose lives have changed thanks to textiles.”

— Nike Davies-Okundaye

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“You have to wear your indigo to show your people that you love them.”

I found a way to make us women powerful, by being able to earn money.

“I always sign the work I do by myself with my name N-I-K-E and I encourage the other women to sign their work too,”

By the time I was ten-years-old, I was already weaving on a proper loom and considered a professional,”

Indigo is regarded as the color of love by the Yoruba people. “The pattern of Adire is the way we used to communicate in the past,”. You have to wear your indigo to show your people that you love them

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