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Barbie Has Some Royal Competition In Nigeria

Kat Chow, NPR (NPR.com)โ€”In Nigeria, Barbie has some fierce โ€” some brown โ€” competition: Taofick Okoya, a 43-year-old entrepreneur, has created Queens of Africa dolls and Naija Princess dolls that are outselling Mattelโ€™s classics. Okoya tells Reuters that he sells about 6,000 to 9,000 dolls a month and that he has โ€œabout 10-15 percent of […]

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