She regularly visits the British Museum in London, to gain inspiration and make sketches for her designs and her designs are mostly inspired by her African heritage, the ancient 9th-century Igbo-Ukwu art culture of Nigeria and the Ancient Egyptian Art-Culture. The Igbo-Ukwu is notable for three archaeological sites, where excavations have found bronze artefacts from a highly sophisticated bronze metal-working culture dating perhaps to the ninth or tenth century, centuries before other known bronzes of the region.
Dawn also designs her own Textile fabric prints, she uses the colour ideas from Ancient Egyptian Art for inspiration for her own Textile Colour Designs.
The Igbo-Ukwu is a town in the Nigerian State in the SouthEastern part of the country. The town comprises seven villages: Objuno, Adkukwa, Umudege, Ezihu, Ezihu, Ezigbo, and Etiti.
Five bronze artefacts from the original excavation are now in the British museums’ collection which Dawn has visited.
Dawn designs beautiful vibrant print skirts for women and girls using bold coloured western fabrics and African print. She mixes the fabrics to make unusual designs, they cannot be bought anywhere else. The skirts are ideal for work and evening. She mixes African print fabric, with silk, cotton and wool fabrics. She makes the patterns, cuts the fabric and sews the garments up from her home studio.
She intends to set up an online business so that women all over the world can purchase the skirts to wear. Dawn designs all types of skirts, long skirts, pencil skirts, A-line mini skirts, evening and wedding skirts.
To raise funds to start her business she has set up a crowdfunding campaign on the Indiegogo website so that she can expand her business
If you would like to donate to her campaign here is the link:
It is good for every upcoming entrepreneur to discover faster and easier their entrepreneurial style. The following five tips will help you to step up your entrepreneurial game and achieve your bravest goals faster. Follow them and you will save yourself a lot of time, effort and even money!
Look for inspiration every single day. Keep the passion alive and try to focus on the positive in everything that is happening in your business at the moment. Look for opportunities where others see only challenges. Find solutions to problems that seem unsolvable by following your intuition and listening to your creative genius. Find what motivates you to keep moving forward when the times get tough. Be the best version of yourself every single day of your entrepreneurial journey!
Never forget why you started. Always look at the bigger picture and don’t let the small distractions and setbacks to distract you from keeping your focus on the main goal. Never forget why you began your venture in the first place and remember that the accomplishment of every small goal is taking you one step closer to turning even your biggest and bravest dreams into reality.
Face your fears. Know your strengths, know your weaknesses and never let any of both to hold you back from performing as the winner that you are. Take risks, don’t be afraid to fail. Think out of the box and don’t follow any cliché. Face your fears, overcome them and move on. You are entering the business world to stay, so be fierce, be brave and be bold.
Remember: Business without sales is just a hobby! Many entrepreneurs dedicate their time solely on the development of the product and concentrate on how they can raise more money. Money is king, yes, but sales are what will guarantee you a long-term success. Always keep selling – no matter what is happening! Hire the most talented sales people and encourage the sales skills of every person on your team. Keep the numbers growing and you will have thriving business. Create a team that you can trust and you will be one step closer to success.
Take care of your health. Entrepreneurship is very demanding. Running a business takes up a lot of time and can be extremely stressful in times. Before you neglect your well-being for the sake of working devotedly, remember that, if you are not feeling at your best, you won’t be able to keep up with the fast pace that your business is growing with. Take care of yourself and you won’t regret it – eat balanced meals, exercise regularly and find the best technique to relieve stress. Stay healthy!
Have you heard of AGDC?
AGDC Employability & Enterprise Development Ltd/ GTE
is a social enterprise set up as a Career Centre to create opportunities that give people access to a continuum of programs and services designed to develop their competencies, employment skills, and career awareness, enabling them to support themselves, their families and increase their quality of life, and to ensure that employers have access to a highly skilled and employable workforce.
AGDC is therefore positioned as a “transformational vehicle” for helping individuals become more productive, employable, entrepreneurial and better able to define and pursue appropriate and rewarding career paths both within and outside the corporate environment.
AGDCs' flagship programs include the Graduate Employability and Work Readiness Credential currently run under the title 'The 7 Star Employee Program' - a re-training & reorientation program that ensures individuals turn up on their first day at work groomed to be value-adding assets to their employers and the High Potential Graduate Program, an intensive development program that impacts core managerial and leadership competences into Nigeria's prospective workforce.
- To proffer Career Solutions, promote employability and ignite enterprise amongst the Nigerian workforce for social change and impact.
Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs (A.Y.E) is committed to empowering young entrepreneurs across Africa by creating platforms that facilitate intra-trade on the continent. We are dedicated to developing the next generation of outstanding African entrepreneurs, who will shape the economies and political landscapes of their home countries.
Benefits of joining A.Y.E.
- Relationships with a respected panel of advisors and experienced entrepreneurs.
- Loyalty patronage from A.Y.E global partners.
- Access to online business initiative programs.
- Access to online business initiative programs
Nigeria’s Next Top Designer (NNTD) is an initiative of Africa Fashion Week Nigeria .
The growing of fad and attraction for African inspired designs globally and the level of creativity displayed by Nigerian designers at Africa Fashion Week in London, provided ample inspiration for the emergence of Nigeria’s Next Top Designer.
Nigerian fashion designers should watchout for the next stage. Here is a great opportunity to show the world your best.
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NNTD is a designers competition aimed at promoting African inspired designs from Nigeria and fostering the promotion and development of aspiring Nigerian designers on the world stage.
I am Nigerian by birth, and in a close-knit family of four. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business Management from the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. I started off working as a sous chef, then moved back to Lagos to open my first restaurant La Saison Café and Restaurant, Ikoyi.
Eros and Gourmet was launched in 2014, and i am currently the Chef Ambassador for German home appliance brand “Miele” in Nigeria.
I am passionately driven by quality, excellence, unparalleled creativity and ultimately, total customer satisfaction and delight as i seek to steadily take over the industry through my commitment to discipline and hard work.
“My dream is to see cookie jar on the streets of major cities around the world bearing the signet of my personality, the founder and executive chef of Cookie Jar Gourmets Bakery”
I have a goal to eradicating food insecurity globally in the year 2030 through a theme called “Food Revolution” which is a partnership with Jamie Oliver.
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Lists Of Handworks You Can Learn In The Space Of A Month.
Handworks are one of the most reliable means of income in today’s world economy; I tell this has been what many have been surviving on in the long run.
If you have a valuable good to offer to people and your goods are reliable am telling you are sure of making regular income all year round without any issue or breakdown as long as your goods is reliable.
One of the issues that scare people away from learning handwork, is the stress been pass through while working as an apprentice, even some bosses maybe sometimes too hard for them, and many don’t like the ideology of been working for someone for a very long time, but this is the good news if you are the time that loves to learn and handwork that doesn’t take too much time to learn.
Here are list of handworks you can learn and become a professional in the space of 1-2 months with a very good attention, that’s it paying a proper attention will help you to get any hand work that will be listed soon on the space of 1-2 months.
Let’s journey together as we looking into these handworks;
- Graphic Design. This is a handwork that is getting more and more popular on daily basis almost every organization, churches, businesses etc., now need the service of a graphics designer, and this is a work you can learn in a very little space of time and earn decent money from it, only if you place close attention at learning it.
- Phone Repair. Mobile phone is probably part of the most used thing in any part of the world, and all these gadget are what needs constant servicing and repair, learning the repairing of phones won’t take too long to know and the least that you can earn on any issue concerning repairing of phone is about #1,000 irrespective of the size of phone or how much it cost.
- Laptop Repairing. This is also similar to repairing phones, and laptops are most time handle with care. Users do not always want to tamper with it themselves they always want to get to a technician at appearance of any defect unlike phone, you can as well learn this in a short period of time and earn real big.
- House Painting. This is a handwork that are always ready for sale because new houses are springing up on a daily basis, you won’t regret learning this and this can be one of the simplest thing you can learn and get at a very short period of time.
- Wrist Watch Repair. There is nothing much to repair other than change the batteries, cleans the engine, change the coil, change the glasses, or change the entire engine. In which can as well learn in a very short period of time and earn your money.
- Hair Dressing and Makeup. This is none of the handwork that command a very good number of attention, and the makeup industry is made up of many professionals and it’s only going to keep getting better. There is really no basis of comparison as all of them have brought the industry to the enviable heights it is now. And you can learn this in a short space of time and there’s real big money in this industry if you have a quality delivering, countless people spend money on makeups and hairdressing.
- Hair Barbing. This is an industry that really works out very well because and average Nigerian man will cut his hair in at least the end of every two weeks, and to learn Barbing, you need just a month except you’re a duller. Barbers charge minimum of N200 Naira for one haircut.
- Beads Making. Bead making is also a handwork that will bring in cool earning, if you can do it well to learn
- Soap Making. This also something you can learning easily and quickly and earn money from.
- Website Development. Almost everyone is putting up one or two website, organizations, churches, individual, and many more and this is what you can learn in a space of little time, even word press or website developing platforms as made learning it very much easier to learn.
- Photography And Videography
- Bread And Cake Making
- Floor Tiling
- Simple Sandal Making
- Fancy Brick Making
Over the years in history, it as been discovered that, the lasting way out of poverty is work!
So when you are working, you are sure of getting out of poverty, you can learn any of this hand work today and be empowered!
There are opportunities that abound everywhere around the world, these are some of them listed above, if you are willing to maximize them, you can be sure of getting the dividends thereof, share with friends.
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