I taught myself to make furniture and then started a furniture factory that still exists. But I realized I wanted to be around creative people. I sta… - Reni Folawiyo

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I taught myself to make furniture and then started a furniture factory that still exists. But I realized I wanted to be around creative people. I started to travel within Africa, and discovered people making fashion and design pieces that were contemporary iterations of what you see traditionally—not what we would call contemporary in the Western sense, but in our context. And I thought that was very intriguing.