I think it was very important for myself, the curators and the trustees of the museum, the founders of the museum, to really give the creators from Africa an
equal playing
ground, you know, you have the Whitney Museum of American Art, you have the Tate Britain of British art, you know these are institutions which take as their motivation to collect and record and position artists from their Nations and we felt it was very important for us to be able to create that same platform
on a high level, so that our artists can
compete in some way and also have the resources, financial, space, logistics, climate control, to be able to give them the freedom to imagine the dreams and visions that they want to execute and they want to make reality.