If you want to be an African boss babe in everything beauty and business , you have to start somewhere . Most boss babes in beauty and business don’t start as the prettiest girl around . Take you for instance , throughout primary school , you were sticky thin with broad shoulders . You looked untidy in your school uniform. Pretty girls hung out with you for your personality , you were very giggly towards their stupid jokes and spent most of your day at school cheering them . You also made great eyelashes and nails with paper and glued them on you and your friends.

You come from a small semi-township inside a larger metropolis. Although all around you is poverty, your hard-working father has managed to extend an RDP house into something that looks like a lavish Nigerian compound . You dance to the latest pop on tv and watch sitcoms to better your English accent . Your mother sells Avon and there’s plenty of powder and lipstick to play with . These are all ingredients for a future Queen of Slay .

You also had something for debate and poetry . I will admit that you were quite an eloquent speaker . All children engage in politics. Because you mostly hung out with pretty “bimbos” , smart kids sidelined you and questioned your brains. So it is that you knew you weren’t that pretty and you also doubted your smarts .. this takes you to a middle ground , one that motivates you to become a Boss Babe …