Mabel Simpson is a

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

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of mSimps in

Early life

Mabel was born to Mr and in

Accra Accra (; or ''Gaga''; ; Ewe: Gɛ; ) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , had a population of ...

Greater Accra Region The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's Regions of Ghana, 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the List of Ghanaian re ...

Education

Simpson's primary education took place at

Ridge Church School The Ridge Church School is an independent and parochial co-educational preparatory day school in Accra, Ghana. Situated between the Gamel Abdul Nasser Avenue and Guinea Bissau Road and opposite the Efua Sutherland Children's Park, it was found ...

and her secondary education was at

Wesley Girls' Senior High School Wesley Girls' High School (WGHS) is an educational institution for girls in Cape Coast in the Central region of Ghana. It was founded in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley, the wife of a Methodist minister. The school is named after the founder of Methodi ...

, where she studied

Visual Arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

. Mabel studied at the

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), commonly known as UST, Tech or Kwame Tech, is a public university located in Kumasi, Ashanti region, Ghana. The university focuses on science and technology. It is the second public uni ...

where she studied Communication Design and

graduating with a Second Class Upper in BA

Communication Design Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development concerned with how media communicate with people. A communication design approach is concerned with developing the message and aesthetics in media. It also crea ...

Career

She started mSimps with a borrowed sewing machine from her grandmother. At age 25, with a capital of US$100 (GHS200), Simpson resigned from her office job in August 2010 to start mSimps. It took mSimps five years to go international, mSimps now has suppliers in the US,

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Nigeria and

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Personal life

She is single and fellowships at St. Augustine Anglican Church in

Dansoman Dansoman is a suburban town in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, It is known as one of the largest estates in West Africa. History Dansoman was founded by the late Nii Kojo Danso I in the late 1960s, and was named after him soon after (with "m ...

Awards

* She has been recognised internationally regarding young entrepreneurship skills by

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. * Mabel was the 10th finalist in the Joy Fm My Business 2011 * She was also the 2ndrunner up in the 2012 Enablis /

UT Bank UT Bank (UTB), formally known as UT Bank Ghana Limited, was a commercial bank in Ghana until 2017 when its license was revoked by the Bank of Ghana due to severe impairment of their capital and was taken over by GCB Bank. , the bank was one of ...

Business LaunchPad competition * She won the Accessory Brand of the Year 2013 at the Glitz Africa Fashion Week * Mabel won Best Handbag and Purse Product of the Year 2013 at 1st Ghana Made Products Awards

References

Living people Ghanaian fashion designers Ghanaian women fashion designers 1984 births Ridge Church School alumni People from Accra Wesley Girls' Senior High School alumni Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni Ghanaian chief executives Ghanaian Anglicans {{Fashion-designer-stub