Popular Nigerian professional dancer Kafayat Oluwatoyin Shafau, also known as Kaffy, has revealed that she started dancing to improve her mental health.
Kaffy made this known during an interview on Channels TV.
The dancer explained that, growing up with a single parent, she found solace in dancing.
She added she then took her dancing skills into a fitness awareness exercise at the Lagos State National Stadium where she found out that people also needed an escape through dancing.
Kaffy said, “Before I even thought of dancing as a profession, I always saw it as something to help me with my mental health.
“And growing up in that average Nigerian household, you have divorced parenting. You are trying to navigate through life as a young teenager. Dancing was the art form in which I found solace. I used it as an escape to somewhere I could become something.
“And when I related with others in the social environment, I found out that people needed some escape. I started exploring that at the national stadium until I found the entertainment space.”