Meet your next · african

“I learned to braid from my mother in Lagos at ten.”

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Adunni Okafor
Adunni Braids Studio · Toronto
Mojere · People of the Diaspora · Vol. IV
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Mojere — the multicultural vendor marketplace

Chapter 01 · African · Beauty
I learned to braid from my mother in Lagos at ten. Twenty years later, I am still doing it — just in Scarborough now.
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Adunni Okafor
Owner, Adunni Braids Studio · Scarborough, Toronto
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A neighbour wrote

“Adunni did my daughter's box braids for her first day at a new school. Three hours, perfect parting, she was gentle the whole time. Worth ev…”

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Blessing A. · 3 weeks ago
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“I came to Toronto three years ago. I did not know where to braid my hair, who to ask, who to trust. Adunni took three hours, spoke Yoruba to me the whole time, and I walked out looking like my sister had done it. I cried in my car.”

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Blessing A.
on Adunni Braids Studio · 3 weeks ago

“Yasir walked my mother through her first Canadian tax return in Urdu, line by line, patiently. My mother cried at how gentle he was with her. We send him every relative now.”

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on Khan Tax and Accounting · Last month
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