Toke Makinwa's Remarkable Rise from Academic Struggles to Success
"I Always Came Last In My Class. In A Class Of 52 Student I Once Came 52 And I Had To Edit My Report Card And Remove 5", Toke Makinwa makes a shocking confession about her school days, revealing that she was an illîterate and a block hèaded person way back in school and never did well in her academics.
Her words: "Another incident that shaped my life, I was always at the bottom of my class. There was this time we were like 52 in the class, and I came 52, and a part of me thought I was smart, and I cleaned the 5 and left the 2.
I was going home to show my parents that finally, after being bottom of the class, I came second, and when they looked at the report card, they flogged me.
She didn’t spare my behind because she was frústrated. I remember when I was feeling ashà med and down, this was the same woman who believed in me and would wake me in the night, telling me to read.
Mummy, I know I came last in class, but today, Mummy, I launched a perfume line”. She said
