Who is the owner of Manding Imports of Africa?
Nema and Victoria are the owners. Nema founded Manding Imports of Africa (formerly called Manding Imports) in 1974. In 1994, Victoria joined Nema on his venture with providing an array of tribal art, beads, textiles, fabric, and clothing. Who is Nema? Nema is a Mande and native of The Gambia, West Africa. As a boy, Nema began trading among African villages. Over the course of forty years, he has supplied the Smithsonian Institute, the Museum of African Art in Philadelphia, the Pace Gallery in New York, the Bead Museum in Prescott, Arizona, and numerous collectors and galleries throughout the nation with African Art, beads, and textiles. His pieces have included outstanding examples of trade beads dating from the fifteenth century to the present.
