This is jewelry for the women carrying culture forward.

I grew up in the Ivory Coast surrounded by beautiful Black women proudly wearing their Kente pieces — whether made into a fashionable outfit or tightly tied around their waist.

Women lathering shea butter on their silky skin, preserving their vibrant beauty.

Women wearing their Akan goldweight jewelry to celebrations, pieces passed down from their mothers and their mother’s mothers.

Women creating beauty in every season of life, carrying culture with them.

I have always loved jewelry. For as long as I can remember, wearing jewelry has been my favourite way to express myself. I remember making bracelets as a child from jewelry kits received at Christmas, selling them to family members and friends. It was always my favourite creative outlet.

I left the Ivory Coast for Canada in 2006 to study. I built a life there, always carrying my culture with me — in the food I cooked, the music I played, the Ankara outfits I brought back from my trips home, and the pieces of jewelry I wore to feel connected to where I came from.

In 2016, after ten years in Canada, I spent most of the year between Zambia for an internship and the Ivory Coast visiting my parents. It was the first time since leaving home that I was spending that much time back.

It hit me hard.

How much I had missed home. How much beauty my culture holds — in our food, our music, our traditions, our clothing, and our ornaments. I felt a deep sense of pride for where I come from and realized how profoundly my culture had shaped who I am and how I show up in the world. It was also the first time I truly paid attention to our symbols — the Adinkra — and the wisdom woven into each one. I had grown up surrounded by them without ever stopping to understand their deeper meaning.

That trip awakened something in me. A longing to reconnect. A desire to celebrate West African culture with the world, in the way I loved most and knew best — through jewelry.

Before returning to Canada, I went to the market and picked up Akan goldweights and stones and began making necklaces and bracelets to gift my friends. I took a jewelry making class at the University of Montreal to perfect my craft. And that is when Ohema by Eba was born.

Each piece I create begins with the women who raised me — the ornaments they wore, the symbols woven into their clothing, the stories told at family gatherings. It becomes something more: a wearable testimony of belonging, pride, and identity.

Ohema is jewelry designed with intention. Pieces that honour where we come from while moving with us into who we are becoming. From the Africa-shaped pendant that places your roots over your heart, to the Adinkra symbols that carry ancient wisdom into modern life — every piece is made to mean something.

Because you carry your culture too.

Maybe you grew up with it all around you, like I did. Maybe you discovered it later, searching for the thread that connects you to something larger than yourself. Maybe you hold it in the recipes you still make, the music that takes you somewhere else, the language you understand even when you struggle to speak it.

Wherever you are in that journey — Ohema was made for you.

For the woman who is rooted and evolving. Traditional and contemporary. Proudly where she comes from and boldly defining where she is going.

You come from greatness. And wherever life takes you, your roots remain part of your story.

This is jewelry for the women carrying culture forward.

This is Ohema.