Essence Magazine:
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If you didn’t know Grace Ladoja before, you do now.
The Nigerian creative and Homecoming Festival founder just made history as the first African woman to design a signature Nike shoe. And she once walked to school for 60 days straight just to save up enough to buy the very silhouette she designed.
Splitting her time between London and Lagos,
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