Dencity: The challenges of building a female skateboarding community in Lagos

In an interview with The Record’s Omon Okhuevbie, the 24-year-old skateboarder and streetwear fashion entrepreneur shared the challenges of building a skateboarding community for young girls and women in Lagos and other states in Nigeria.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lagos, Abimsola Naiwo, feeling bored, decided to try out her brother’s skateboard. With a few tips from him, she began skateboarding around the house. As Lagos gradually reopened after the pandemic, Naiwo often joined her brother and his friends to skate on the street behind Freedom Park, near St Nicholas Hospita…