Nigeria’s art collectors
Another good way to spend your lovely oil money
Jul 29th 2010 | Lagos
Enwonwu’s dazzling dances The Economist |
gives us a look on African Art collectors from Africa, in this case living in Nigeria.
IN A suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s business capital, Yemisi Shyllon lives in a house full of bronze statues of African tribal rulers and brightly coloured beadwork landscapes. He may be Nigeria’s biggest art collector, with some 6,000 pieces by his count. “I don’t go out much,” he says, “I have enough to look at here.”
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