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Ladi Dosei Kwali popularly known as Dr Ladi Kwali was born in 1925 in Kwali town in the present Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,Nigeria. Probably she is the best known of the Abuja  potters. Making pots was women’s work in Kwali and the entire Gbari villages, therefore Ladi came to Abuja (the then Suleja) with knowledge of traditional Gbari pottery. She did not at first take to the idea of using wheels and kilns and the other paraphernalia of the European potter, but…