I talk about interiors, but decorating is only the beginning…
RETHINKING THE HOME AS A SPACE FOR JOY, COMMUNITY, NATURE AND ANCESTRAL CONNECTION.
How we create our homes has always fascinated me. Growing up between my Nigerian and Jamaican heritage, I watched both my grandmothers turn their homes in Lagos and Bristol into something both personal and profound. Spaces that held culture, memory, joy and identity all at once, without ever calling it interior design.
When I renovated my London home, Cottage Noir, I found myself instinctively doing the same. Everything I placed in my home was connected, rooted in the same story, my family story
Then I started looking beyond my own four walls. At other Black homes throughout history. What I found was so extraordinary, so understudied, and so inspiring that I simply had to share it.
My Debut Book: House Proud
PUBLISHED BY RIBA | FORTHCOMING SEPTEMBER 2026
Every home tells a story. House Proud is a visual anthology that shows how Black homes tell one of humanity's most enduring and sophisticated design stories, a story of life rooted in nature, community, joy, and the sacred.
From the Tamberma Tatas of Togo to the Palace of Sans-Souci in Haiti, from Madam C.J. Walker's New York retreat to the inspiring Black homes of today, Black cultural traditions are not an influence on the story of home design. They are its foundation. Understanding that foundation is a gift for anyone who wants a home that holds and nurtures everyone within it.
I TALK ABOUT HOME AS A RADICAL SPACE. AS AN ANCESTRAL SPACE.
Work With Me
A place that holds your culture, your history, your joy and your people. Not just a backdrop for beautiful objects, but one of the most powerful expressions of identity you will ever create.
That perspective changes every conversation I enter. Whether I am speaking on a stage, collaborating with a brand or talking to a journalist, I bring a point of view that is rigorous, warm and unlike anything mainstream interiors media has offered before.
Brand Partnerships
For brands that want to engage Black British and diaspora audiences with genuine cultural depth and creative credibility.
Keynotes & Talks
From intimate cultural gatherings to major institutional stages, talks that reframe how audiences think about design, heritage and the home.
Media and Press
Comment, features and broadcast. A perspective on home, culture and identity that is grounded in research, lived experience and ancestral intelligence.
As Featured In
The Cornrow
THE HOME OF AFRO-CHIC INTERIORS
The Cornrow is my love letter to modern Black design made shoppable. A carefully curated lifestyle store co-founded with my sister, Lara, that brings together homeware, books, art, and lifestyle products that celebrate the Black aesthetic in all its richness, diversity, and joy. Everything I write and talk about, you can live with.
Afri-tectural Digest
A SPACE FOR THINKING DEEPLY ABOUT HOME
Afri-tectural Digest is my Substack, exploring homes, interiors and architecture through the lens of Africa and the African diaspora. Essays, reflections and cultural notes that go beyond aesthetics and trends, to consider what our homes carry, what they teach us, and how they can support fuller, more intentional ways of living. It is a space for thinking deeply about home.
