NIKE ART GALLERY - OSOGBO

The gallery is housed in a two-storey house, itself an artistic mix of colonnades, wooden pillars, paintings and sheet metal on the ceiling. If the whole thing is a little dusty and the electricity is switched on for you, the place is worth a visit and hides some nuggets. Uneven paintings adorn every square centimetre, from floor to ceiling, as well as a display of indigo batiks from neighbouring dyeing shops, basketwork, wooden stools and terracotta pots. Upstairs, one room is filled with batik, and the other with traditional Nigerian woven fabrics: ask for an explanation of the differences and methods. Don't miss the lower side rooms, which contain strange and very slender wooden sculptures with like large spread arms turned towards the sky - still mystical - and two real carved elephant tusks.