The Archive

Every story, in one place.

A running record of every Folio Her publication, across every series. The most recent stories appear first.

Founders in Focus

ADEOLA ADEYEMI: WHEN BEAUTY BECAME A BUSINESS

Adeola Chizoba Adeyemi entered the beauty industry first as a model and makeup artist, but building Beauty By AD required her to understand beauty differently. What began as a desire to create her own makeup line became a business shaped by questions of representation, quality, consistency and what African women should expect from the products made for them.

19 October 2026

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Arike Samuel Is Building a Fashion Brand That Reflects Her Vision

Arike Samuel is building ByArikeSamuel into a contemporary African fashion brand, guided by creativity, faith and the belief that clarity often comes from taking the first step.

12 October 2026

Founders in Focus

Making African Stories Travel: The Work Mo Abudu Has Built Around a Vision

Mo Abudu’s journey from Moments with Mo to EbonyLife is a story of what happens when one idea keeps revealing a larger one. Across television, film, international partnerships, creative education and entertainment spaces, she has repeatedly had to enter unfamiliar territory and build the structures required to take African stories further.

9 October 2026

Founders in Focus

When Helping Was No Longer Enough: Damilola Feyide and Let It Shine Academy

What began as a free creative academy became a secondary school and, in 2025, a boarding school. Damilola Feyide’s journey with Let It Shine Academy is a story about what happens when helping children in individual moments is no longer enough, and the work becomes about building an institution capable of supporting them consistently.

7 October 2026

Founders in Focus

Omobolaji Ajibare on Building a Career in Social Media Into a Business

Omobolaji Ajibare shares how a career in social media became TheSocialMediaOga, and what building has taught her about leadership, uncertainty, confidence and becoming.

5 October 2026

Founders in Focus

OMOLARA SANNI ON BUILDING MIDDDLEMAN

Omolara Sanni spent more than six years running e-commerce businesses before the problems she encountered importing from China became the starting point for Midddleman. The company’s first solution did not gain the traction they expected, forcing her and her co-founder to make a difficult pivot. In this Founders in Focus story, she reflects on rejection, fundraising, resilience, the pressure of making payroll, and what building has revealed about the woman she is becoming.

29 September 2026

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Building a Life That Makes Room for More

Ayeni Princess is building a life shaped by purpose, mental health advocacy, faith and the freedom to become someone she did not originally plan to be.

28 September 2026

Her Africa

The Woman Who Changed the Meaning of Public Service

Dora Akunyili entered public service as a pharmacist and left it as one of Nigeria’s most recognisable public figures. Between the laboratory, the classroom, NAFDAC and the Federal Ministry of Information, she built a career around a simple but demanding idea: that public institutions should work for the people they were created to serve.

28 September 2026

Founders in Focus

The Many Rooms Anita Erskine Has Learned to Build In

For more than two decades, Anita Erskine has worked across broadcasting, strategic communications, entrepreneurship and some of Africa’s most consequential conversations. Through Erskine Global Communications and the platforms she continues to build, she has turned communication into more than a profession — it has become the work through which she helps people and institutions make their ideas understood.

25 September 2026

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Funmilayo Adebomi Is Building the Life She Wants

Funmilayo Adebomi is building her personal brand and business around creativity, curiosity and a belief in living fully while creating the kind of abundance she wants for herself and her family.

23 September 2026

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Yetunde Olatunbosun on Growth, Ambition and Intentional Living

Yetunde Olatunbosun is building a career in social media and marketing while becoming more intentional about ambition, softness, peace and the life she wants to create.

18 September 2026

Founders in Focus

Ruth Okoli on What It Really Takes to Build Nestuge

Ruth Okoli’s story is less about arriving as a founder than about becoming one through the uncertainty, failure, learning and persistence that building a company

16 September 2026

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Diuparum Is Building a Language for the Life She Wants

Diuparum, a video strategist and creative, reflects on failure, faith, autonomy, content creation and learning to move without waiting for perfection.

15 September 2026

Her Africa

Flora Nwapa and the Work of Putting African Women Back Into the Story

Flora Nwapa understood that telling African women’s stories was not enough. She wanted women to have the power to tell, publish and define those stories themselves.

10 September 2026

Her Africa

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and the Women Who Made Power Listen

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was more than a nationalist, educator or women’s rights activist. In 1940s Abeokuta, she helped organise thousands of women into a political force powerful enough to challenge taxation, traditional authority and colonial structures. Her story is one of courage, organising and a refusal to accept that women should remain outside the rooms where decisions were made.

10 September 2026

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Putting Feelings Into Words

Hannah Salami Oyiza is a writer whose work puts words to the feelings many people experience but struggle to express, she reflects on authenticity, love, heartbreak, community, faith, and learning to become a more peaceful version of herself.

10 September 2026

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Learning to Build Without Rushing the Becoming

Ivy Elebesunu, founder of Grow With Ivy, reflects on ambition, access, faith, rest, and learning to build a meaningful life without rushing her becoming.

9 September 2026

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