African art gains local market as ART X Lagos enters new decade

The founder of ART X Lagos, Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, has said Africans are now collecting African art, a shift she credits to the platform’s first 10 years, as the fair opens its 11th edition in Lagos.
Peterside-Schwebig spoke at the fair, which holds on Friday at The Federal Palace, Victoria Island, under the theme “A New Chapter, A New Decade.”
She said ART X Lagos was set up in 2016 to change the belief among young African artists, especially Nigerians, that they had to leave the continent to build globally resonant careers.
According to her, the fair has built a world-class platform in Lagos that serves local audiences while keeping an international outlook. She said the rest...