Ayanfe Olarinde, like many children of the African soil, was born to parents who wanted nothing more than for her to succeed. And succeed she has, but maybe not in the way her Nigerian parents had anticipated.
Like many who choose a career in arts, Ayanfe also had a fallback solution. With her microbiology degree under her belt (completed in 2018), she is garnering international recognition for her work and has stepped into the whizzy world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
According to Wikipedia, an NFT is a “non-interchangeable unit of data stored on a blockchain… that can be sold and traded”. Recently, Ayanfe moved to convert some of her art into non-fungible digital files (aka tokens). This move has enabled her to verify ownership of her work online, begin to market it without the need of a middle man, stoke demand and perceived desirability for her work, and set herself up to profit from every current and future sale of her…
