Born in Yaoundé,
Made in London.
I was born in Yaoundé and began my education at Holy Infant School, the place my father helped build and the place that shaped my earliest memories. When my family moved to London at age 12, my world widened. I discovered that the creativity I had carried since childhood could be a future.
London pushed me to explore fashion, design, storytelling, and identity. It became the city that refined my voice and gave me the space to grow into the creative I am today. Yet every visit back to Holy Infant reminded me of something familiar - young students with the same spark I once had, but without access to the creative pathways that transformed my life. That realisation stayed with me and planted the seed of a much bigger idea.
The Creative Corner grew from that seed. A quiet dream that turned into a mission to open doors for young Cameroonian creators and honour the school that shaped my beginnings.
In 2025, the dream found the perfect partner in the Kurt Geiger Kindness Foundation, whose values aligned seamlessly with the heart of the project.
Together, we developed a programme that brings craftsmanship, culture, and possibility into the classroom through hands-on modules led by local artisans and supported by industry-grade materials.
This first Creative Corner in Yaoundé is the start of something larger. A model designed to grow, adapt, and inspire new generations of makers in communities around the world.
And if this project gives just one young person the confidence to dream bigger, or imagine a future they didn’t know was possible, then my heart is full.
