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Meet Kafani: photographer, reader, storyteller.

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Kafani, who files from Lagos, introduces herself to camera. “I am a creative, a photographer, an artist, a content creator, and someone who just likes expressing herself with different forms of storytelling.” Five years of photography and digital storytelling, and, she says, “what most people don’t know about me is that I have a background in communication. I study mass communication in University of Legos, Nigeria.”

She reads: “Like all those people you see on TikTok, book girlies. I am a book girlies. I read mangas. I read memoirs.” And she is launching two series of her own, “one is called kafani tries where I try out new apps and mini apps and talk about them and then the other one is tea time with kafani.” The year’s plan: “learning creating and expressing myself to the fullest,” because “nobody actually has life figured out so I’m just going to be taking it one step at a time.”

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0:00Kafani: Hi guys, I’m Kafani. I am a creative, a photographer, an artist, a content creator, and someone who just likes expressing herself with different forms of storytelling. I have an exploring photography and digital storytelling for over 5 years now. And what most people don’t know about me is that I have a background in communication. I study mass communication in University of Legos, Nigeria. If you ask me what a good time is, I will tell you a good time is me creating art, me listening to music. I am a reader. Like all those people you see on TikTok, book girlies. I am a book girlies. I read mangas.

0:00Kafani: I read memoirs, I read different types of books like I love reading so I had this idea for a while to launch two projects where I talk about different things and one is called kafani tries where I try out new apps and mini apps and talk about them and then the other one is tea time with kafani where I give you guys all the tea just talk about random stuff and you know just have fun with tea I want this year to be all about learning creating and expressing myself to the fullest I would also love to collaborate with a lot of people and I’m hoping it all works out because honestly nobody actually has life figured out so I’m just going to be taking it one step at a time and you know have fun as usual.

0:00Kafani: I’d love you all to come along on this creative journey and check out my work and just let me know what you are most excited about in the comments below. Thanks for watching and I’ll I’ll see you in my next video. Kafani out. Bye!

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