Over 60 Vendors at Nigerian Entrepreneurs showcase in Regina | 24CA News
What began as a WhatsApp group solely three years in the past, has blossomed into way more.
Ola Sanusi is the organizer of Nigerian Entrepreneurs Summer Hangout (NESH). She began it in 2020 as a gaggle on WhatsApp. In 2021, the primary NESH occasion had solely eight distributors, however on Saturday, greater than 60 participated within the showcase at Kiwanis Park in Regina.
Vendors bought clothes, meals, jewellery and sweetness merchandise.
Sanusi moved to Canada in 2019 from Nigeria, and is the founding father of Entrepreneurs and More, the non-profit internet hosting Saturday’s occasion.
Although Nigerian in title, the hangout invitations Black entrepreneurs of varied backgrounds, together with African nations and the Caribbean, to community and promote their merchandise.
“We have to do more,” Sanusi mentioned “I don’t want to restrict myself to Nigerians, I want to go beyond that and that’s why I’m extending myself to Black entrepreneurs. I’m very happy. My vision is coming to reality.”
As somebody whose purpose is to assist and assist others, she seems ahead to rising the occasion within the coming years.
For younger Black entrepreneurs like Shalom Okegeo, she says the illustration NESH presents, actually issues.
“It’s important to represent your culture and keep it going,” she mentioned.
Okegeo and her father, Daniel, function an Italian vogue stall and arrange store on the hangout.
The business represents her Italian-born, however ethnic-Nigerian background.
According to Okegeo, Italian manufacturers are hottest among the many business class in Nigeria, thus influencing her to promote Italian sneakers, baggage and extra.
“I’m surrounded by Nigerian people, selling their own stuff, being themselves, starting their own business and being entrepreneurs,” mentioned Okegeo.
Although an adolescent now, Okegeo mentioned she plans to take over the household business sooner or later.
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