This TED Talk features art fair curator Toria El Glawi, recorded live at TED Global 2017.

Let's talk about how the narrative of Africa is being told and who is doing the telling.

I want to share with you the selection of work by contemporary artists from Africa and its diaspora.

I love this art. I find it beautiful and inspiring and thrilling, and I really hope I'm able

to pique your interest. I want to share something about myself and why art matters to me.

I'm the daughter of an artist, so that means that growing up,

I had a chance to see my father do artwork in his studio.

My home was surrounded by art,

and I had an early art education being dragged to museum

and exhibition over the summer holidays.

What I did not understand really at the time

is that it also gave me an early understanding

about why art is important,

how to look at it, how to understand it,

but also how to love it.

So art matters to me on a personal level,

and not only because it's beautiful and inspiring and thrilling,

but because art tell powerful stories.

All these artists have stories to tell you

about what it means to be African,

stories that tell you and touches about our African identity,

but also stories that tell us about who we are as African,

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