When I think of community and the celebration that is life, I think of my village, Oguta. When I think of sinuous lines, I

When the art department of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, was founded in 1961, one of its two pioneer teachers was Akinola Lasekan (1916-1974), an established painter who was perhaps better known as the nationalist cartoonist, Lash, whose cartoons appeared for some two decades in the West African Pilot (a newspaper publication). Why none of the first three sets of art graduates (1965, 1966, 1967) specialized in painting despite the presence of Lasekan, and later, in 1962/

Since inception, the University of Nigeria Nsukka has led in forming a contextual system for presenting Contemporary Nigerian art and...