Meet the Yoruba lady who tied Beyonce's gele in her new music video 'Dark is King'


Ace American and International music sensation, Beyonce’s new video ‘Black is King’ without a doubt won the hearts of a lot of Africans most especially Nigerians.

Not just in light of the fact that the 38-year-old was able to impress many with her effortless show-off of popular Nigerian dance known as ‘Zanku‘, but also because of her decision of costume which completely portrayed that of an African woman.

The sensational singer rocked a pink ‘gele’ tied by one of Nigeria’s top fashion designer whose m name is Azeezat Abiola Amusat who likewise tied Gele for the other models in the video.


Well Azeezat Abiola Amusat, 41-year-old is a Nigerian born Philosopher cum beautician who based in the U.S. She came from Lagos State and is the first out of 7 children of her parents. Her education for her began from Police Children School in lkeja, Lagos State.

Abiola is a very hardworking individual who is in love with Fashion. In 2013, Abiola had a friend who came from Nigeria to deliver her baby in America and she met her in a friend’s house and they got talking.


Well, in course of their discussion, she understood that the woman had a store and school of fashion where she trains people how to tie Gele and makeup in Nigeria.

The woman taught her for 14 days and she had 2 jobs as of the time of learning but most time when she came back from work at midnight she immediately joined the class. Abiola was so devoted to learning it.

Thus, the major reason she went into the art of Gele was on the grounds that she was humiliated at a party, when she saw a woman  tieing the guest’s gele and she was so impolite to people and lack manners.


A very passionate Abiola then revealed to herself that she can make cool cash from this, by having good customer service, treating people nicely and being humble. The rest is now history.

However, to her credit, she has won 5 Awards from her Gele Tieing business. She has met and worked for a lot of Hollywood and Nollywood Celebrities.



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