Tokini Peterside

Tokini Peterside-Schwebig is a Nigerian entrepreneur, business woman and art collector. She is the founder of ART X Collective, a cultural management company in Lagos, Nigeria. The company's flagship fair, ART X Lagos, is the leading international art fair in West Africa.

Quotes

• There is so much potential for culture to be used as a vehicle to influence people’s perceptions of a country, a destination, a civilisation.
  • Her reply when asked the role for art (5 November 2019)

• Soft power is not just a squishy concept. It is used very deliberately by European and now Asian powers.
  • Buzzing curiosity

• The thing about the creative sector is the potential that it has in Nigeria’s economy going into the future.
  • Creative sector and Nigeria's economy