“In African tradition, waist beads are meant to be worn under clothing ... who has been wearing and making the jewelry since 1999. She sells the beads at art shows all around the country ...

Now her dream is to add - like precious beads to a necklace - new outlets to her company and expand across Nigeria and West Africa.

European slave-traders paid African middle-men to bring native ... When they arrived at Fort James, soldiers tore the bead necklaces from their necks, thereby robbing them of their identities ...