Freedom of expression: Tate exhibition offers an overdue showcase of Nigeria’s Modernist artists

Dale Berning Sawa, The Art Newspaper, 15 October 2025
When in 2018 Ben Enwonwu’s 1974 portrait of the Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, Tutu, sold at Bonham’s for £1.2m (four times its upper estimate), the author Ben Okri noted that “modern African artists are entirely absent from the story of art”. It was an oversight, he wrote, that urgently needed rectification.