Bolanle Austen-Peters: The Art Amazon
10 March 2018 |
10:00 am
When Bolanle Austen-Peters returned to Nigeria from the United States, the lawyer had a burning desire: to restore the art identity that was on the brink of getting forgotten. "As an expatriate, you tend to visit a lot of touristic sites and destinations when you are abroad. Typically, I used to take my children, we'd…
When Bolanle Austen-Peters returned to Nigeria from the United States, the lawyer had a burning desire: to restore the art identity that was on the brink of getting forgotten.
“As an expatriate, you tend to visit a lot of touristic sites and destinations when you are abroad. Typically, I used to take my children, we’d go to art centres, we’d go to galleries, we’d go to museums. And I recognised there was a lack of that in Nigeria”
Her desire spurred her to action which gave birth to Terra Kulture.
Catch up on all she said in the Guardian Life located inside the Guardian Newspaper tomorrow.
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