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Bread Hawker Turns Cinderella..


About three weeks ago, 27-year old Olajumoke Orisaguna was a completely unknown on the streets of Lagos, hawking bread.  She had trained as a hair stylist, got married but had to leave her husband and a daughter back home in Ire, Osun state, to “hustle” as it were in Lagos.
The life of a bread seller in Lagos is easily imaginable: exposure to the elements, to sundry abuse, including the possibility of being raped by unruly artisans and bachelors, who will offer to buy bread and something else along with it, if the hawker is willing.
 This was Olajumoke Orisaguna's reality until she ran into TY Bello and Tinie Tempah and her life changed. Today, she has been enrolled as a model. Her story has appeared in all newspapers, on CNN, Huffington Post, and virtually everywhere online.
before the fame
Mrs Orisaguna is Nigeria's Cinderella. Hers is a sudden, unplanned, unexpected, unprepared for grass to grace, rags to riches story. It doesn't happen everyday. It is the kind of accident that many Nigerians seek: accidental fame and fortune. It is perhaps miraculous, I-don't believe-it-but-it-is-true quality of this story that has captured the public imagination.
now a model
a face to be reckoned with

nigerian cinderella


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