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| Ladi Kwali the Queen of ceranics |
'Born in Kwali, a northern Nigerian town of the Gwari Yamma people, Ladi Kwali gained international celebrity
as a potter in the late 1950s. Like most women in the region, she learned to make traditional coiled pottery at an early age.
Her work was much admired by the British potter Michael Cardew, and he invited her to work with him at the government-funded
Pottery Training Centre in nearby Abuja. This she did from 1954. Her international reputation followed exhibitions and demonstrations
in Britain, Germany, the USA and Canada from 1958 onwards.
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