Being aware that his skin colour will most probably add several obstacles to his road to success, the fashion designer only seems to gain strength and self-confidence. Raised in Nigeria to a family of craftsmen, his passion for clothes and a personal style developed from an early age; but his true love, people and their stories, is what he’s learned along the way. Now, presenting a collection titled Thank you Florence, which includes a letter/poem dedicated to her grandmother, he’s retelling and reinventing the story of West-African countries when freedom, experimental music and a jaw-dropping outfits lived in harmony before the European governments decided the continent was of their property and started exploiting its people and resources.