Joyce Ababio, a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America is the CEO and founder of Joyce Ababio College of Creative design, the premiere fashion design school in Accra, Ghana, West Africa.

Ababio is a graduate of the London College of Fashion where she studied fashion design.  She worked for fashion houses Jacques Azagury and Belville Sassoon upon completing her course, returning to Ghana in 1990.

Ababio started her own fashion label Joyce Ababio rapidly gaining a solid reputation and recognition for creating modern African designs by blending traditional Ghanaian textiles and motifs with current styles and techniques.  Ababio in 1999 founded the Joyce Ababio College of Creative Design providing education and training for fashion designers.  Her college offers diploma and degree programmes in fashion design and other related courses.  The college has successfully trained several well-known fashion designers who have their own labels and are gaining international recognition.

For her immense contribution to fashion and education in Ghana, Ababio has been honoured with the Ghana Women of Excellence Award and the Millennium Excellence Award for Education.

Reference:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Ababio