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Nigerian batik and textile designer (born 1951)

ChiefNike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), also known as Nike Okundaye, Nike Twins Seven Seven and Nike Olaniyi, is a Nigerian Yoruba and adiretextile designer.

She is best known as an artist for her cloth work and embroidery pieces.^[1]

Early life

Nike Okundaye was born May 23, 1951 in Ogidi, Kogi State, in North-Central Nigeria,^[2] and was brought up amidst the Yoruba traditional weaving and dyeing as practised in her home town.

Her parents and great grandmother were musicians and craftspeople, who specialized in the areas of cloth weaving, adire making, indigo dyeing and leather.^[3] She learned how to use the loom to produce cloth during the time she lived with her great grandmother Ibitola (“Red Woman”).^[4] She spent part of her early life in Osogbo, Western Nigeria, modern-day Osun State.

Growing up in Osogbo, which is recognized as a major centre for art and