When you meet Nigerians they are incredible. Their energy is incredible. - Sokari Douglas Camp

The aesthetic qualities my pieces have are definitely foreign from other western ideas. It takes a long time for the West to accept that other people have ideas, or have worthy cultures and traditions.

In the first phase when I started art school, I started with paint, I was very excited about it, and I truly thought that I would be a painter, but what happened is that I didn’t really love any of my paintings! Today, I’m still highly fascinated by the idea of painting, but luckily I soon discovered that it was easier to express myself through sculpture to put my hands in something. It’s just that the two-dimensional approach wasn’t for me.

City bank clients have come in and said 'I want to buy this, this and this'. Or somewhere like the British Museum wants to buy this or that, and you think - wow!