A project brief gave me the opportunity to realise there was more to me than I even knew and allowed me to connect with my Nigerian ancestry through African installation and art pieces. This was the moment I really began to creatively express and explore my true self in different ways. 

I wanted to learn more and felt it was only right to experience life in Africa. Noticing the beautiful rich textiles, all done by hand even with insufficient technologies, I was thinking of ways as a creative to collaborate with African Creatives. With my privilege and access to technology, I knew I could be the bridge between the first and third world. 

London was where I opened my first studio, and this was when I realised the supply chain challenge. While visiting manufacturing hubs in Kenya, I was then introduced to the sustainability issue with cotton. Smaller quantity manufacturing companies were pretty much non-existent, and infrastructure isn’t implemented or financially viable.

Yield Initiatives was born to stand between subsistence farmers and sustainability. 

We are now in the process of developing our own T-shirt, made with organic cotton produced from our state-of-the-art cotton seed, grown in farms across Nigeria.