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One person that Okoya [the creator] really hopes the dolls will have a positive impact on is his daughter, who, he explains, once wished she was white.

Nigerian entrepreneur, Taofik Okoya, has created
Nigerian dolls that are outselling the Barbie doll, the
UK Daily Mail is reporting. The paper said according to
Reuters, 9,000 units of the £4.50 (N1,280) dolls are sold per month, taking up 15 percent of Nigeria’s toy market.

According to the Daily Mail, Mr. Okoya decided to make the dolls after he set out to buy a black doll for his niece but could not find any.

The dolls, which are also sold online, have found buyers not only in Nigeria but in America, Brazil and Europe.

In an interview with Elle Magazine, Mr Okoya said
“My mission is to make the Queens of Africa a symbol of hope, trust, and confidence by promoting African history, culture, and fashion.

However, Mr. Okoya, who has been trying to market his dolls in American stores, has been told he can sell them only in specialist stores and not larger department stores but he remains undeterred.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2931846/Nigerian-doll-created-man-couldn-t-black-toy-niece-popular-country-s-outselling-BARBIE.html

This is commendable

Beauriful dolls!

enough of white dolls jare

EroticAngelina:
Beauriful dolls!

enough of white dolls jare

Ya, The Nigerian dolls looks more lively

So beautiful.

BaebieHot:
This is commendable

Promoting our culture ... so funny the whites never made an African doll..

absoluteSuccess:
So beautiful.

Black is indeed beautiful

Mehn! The dolls be givin me ideas alredi on hw 2 tidy ma ankara material

Dis is buiriful.

Check the beautiful African Fabric.Love them

So beautiful

Wow!!..this is creativity!!!

Look wt uv done! I tot av outgrown dolls nw am havin a rethink!

anyone know where I can get one ?

Nice...this is what we need

a little more proud black Africans repin the black attitude

Right from infancy, kids are indoctrinated to view 'svelte' as the ideal body type. Little wonder they grow up with a warped view of their own body image, and as such experience insecurities that can make them go to any length to conform to the society's view of what beauty should look like.

These dolls look like black, Ankara attired barbies: long limbs, long neck, large eyes and graceful poses. The chubby, naturally shortlegged child will grow up viewing herself as less than beautiful than the slim girl who looks a little like these barbie dolls.

Growing up, my dolls were those stiff, wooly haired plastic dolls that look like 'sigidi' (idols), so I never had that problem

Proudly Nigerian.

RUBBISH

Hope he won't start making the bigger ones.

Good thinking, Good Product

Ok

Love this

Real business nous. Good one.

Hmmm dis guy again...u sure say juju no follow? #onsumnigerianchuckyshii

The doll looks "exotically beautiful"

My God, see money

why must african tins look awkward n different

Perhaps you haven't grown at all when you actually think you have

yhusiee:
Look wt uv done! I tot av outgrown dolls nw am havin a rethink!

So, some people still dey fancy doll baby?

Nice one. Have once said it that NIGERIA is going to be a world power one day.

We lead while others follow.

How many dozens do you want?

lepasharon:
anyone know where I can get one ?

good