All the beauty of local craftsmanship

Nigerian craftsmanship is on full display, as one can see at the Lekki Arts and Craft Centre where cabinetmakers, as well as dried reed weavers and furniture designers have created a truly exuberant and varied market. One penetrates the stalls among calm and polite vendors who love to explain the techniques used in the making of the objects on display. Bags, headgear, carpets, artefacts made of iron or assembled from recycled materials arouse surprise and curiosity. The beauty of the young people and their loquacity will immediately strike a chord. Well-known artists choose spaces as heterogeneous as the Nike Art Gallery to show their work: its owner Mama Nike Davies-Okundaye, herself a flamboyantly and beautifully coloured textile artist, has selected tens of thousands of highly expressive works of African imagination and craftsmanship in this multi-storey space.