Nurali Mohamedali was born in Zanzibar, the fifth in a family of 10. He had hoped to continue his education after high school, but his father wanted the star student to learn the family business. His father had arrived in Zanzibar, a pauper from India at 13 and become a successful businessman. By the time Nurali was a teenager,After his family moved to Dar es Salaam on the mainland, Nurali still made frequent trips to Zanzibar.
The T-shirt designs harked back to Nurali’s creative roots. As a younger man, he designed fabrics for his father’s kanga shop. Later he worked with architects to design Momela Park Lodge, where the 1962 filmwas filmed and where he shared an evening of drinks with its stars John Wayne and Hardy Kruger.
the family during their first long winter in Canada. As a golfer, he designed and patented a better putter and taught his daughters the game. As a new grandfather, he consulted with the fire chief to design a pouch that could carry a baby out of a second-floor window to safety.