News – Tagged "eco-conscious"

The story of OBI print

by Claire Mkparu February 25, 2022

We recently met with Tanith from Aware Now magazine to talk through the story of our OBI print and here is the article she wrote! Have a read thro...

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Akwa Baby storytelling

by Claire Mkparu February 1, 2022

We’ve had the privilege of writing articles for some absolutely amazing publications over the past few months, even achieving front cover on two o...

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Short Documentary on Akwa Baby

by Claire Mkparu January 21, 2022

We were approached by TRT (the Turkish version of BBC apparently!) at the end of last year to make a short documentary about our baby brand, it wa...

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The Benin Bronzes

by Claire Mkparu January 16, 2022

You may have seen in the press the past couple of days that Newcastle university is set to return some Benin Bronze to Nigeria. There are hundre...

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