Toyin Oyebola’s store — the Genesis Exotic Market — has items one can’t find anywhere else in Lethbridge. The store offers clothes, hair accessories and products, and even food — not only from Africa, but from all over the world. Oyebola says the multi-ethnic items her store has to offer gives some of her customers a nostalgic sense of being back home. “When we got here we saw there was a need, because it’s a small city, but sometimes your access to things is limited,” Oyebola said. “We looked around, I couldn’t really find things that spoke ‘exotic’ to […]
Black entrepreneurs in Lethbridge share how their identity shapes the way they do business
