For now, Tate has given Nigeria’s cultural moment a museum-scale frame — and committed to keeping part of that story on the walls for decades. If the promise of Zaria and the reinventions of Nsukka and Osogbo teach anything, it is that art, given time and room, can do more than mirror a nation. It can help remake it.

Top heavyweight contender Lawrence Okolie is set to headline a show in Lagos, Nigeria at the end of 2025, alongside fellow Brit David Adeleye.

Tate Modern’s ‘revelatory’ show includes 250 works examining Nigerian art pre- and post independence

August 8, 2019. The transformative moment? A late, unexpected move for the then 23-year-old on transfer deadline day from his boyhood club of Arsenal to Premier League side Everton.