Making Custom Ankara Footwear by Restoring Old, Discarded Ones

In this post we share photos of our first attempts at making various kinds of simple custom footwear. Today, Temi and Oluoma’s older brother, Emeka whose natural talent for making handicrafts was discovered early, is apprenticing in a custom shoe making outfit, and is already able to make simple footwear (which will be showcased soon on his website that’s currently under construction).

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See other photos of the family’s first attempt at making custom Ankara footwear by restoring old, discarded ones:

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Take a careful look at developed societies (e.g in Europe, Asia, America) and you will notice that possession of income earning (vocational) “skills” is just as valued as acquisition of academic degrees and certifications for paid employment.

Sadly the same cannot be said for Nigeria.

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