"People always asked me why Los Angeles and not London?" says gallery owner Adenrele Sonariwo who opened her outpost in Los Angeles in 2021. "Even then, we were already looking at London... it was just a matter of timing."
London has a special resonance for Sonariwo, who has familial ties with the city, like many other people in Nigeria (the UK capital is thought to have the largest diasporic Nigerian population in the world). The UK capital is also important for the contemporary African art trade, with many contemporary African art galleries-for example, Tiwani Contemporary, Ed Cross, Jack Bell, Gallery 1957-established there.
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