Mayowa was born in Angola in 1958, and came as a refugee to Botswana when she was ten years old. She is married and has two sons and three daughters.

She started weaving when she was 15 years old because other girls her age were learning. She started weaving baskets that were good enough to sell, and soon wove baskets that were graded as CC's (the highest grade). She was encouraged to attend workshops, and was later awarded a certificate qualifying her as a teacher.

Mayowa joined the Etsha Weavers Group in 1999, and now has no time to collect palm in the surrounding area. Instead she can afford to pay others to collect materials for her, so that she can weave full-time. Her favourite pattern is the 'forehead of the zebra', and she prefers weaving closed baskets.