Tag: Uche Okeke
Wangboje: Ode to master print maker
Nigeria’s first professor of fine art and former deputy vice-chancellor, University of Benin, Prof. Solomon Irein Wangboje (1930-1998), would have been 90 years in...
Uche Okeke honoured on 86th posthumous birthday
Late painter and poet, Uche Okeke, has been honoured on
his 86th posthumous birthday.
Okeke, who played a pioneering role in evolving a fine
art curriculum at...
7 things to know about artist and poet, Uche Okeke
The tragedy of ancient black civilization was the fact that
so few of what the ancients knew was written down and whatever is not written
down...
Uche Okeke: Plaudits for poet, painter and prophet – Toni Kan
Book title: Art In Development – A Nigerian Perspective
Publishers: Iwalewa House
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 175
In reflecting upon Uche Okeke’s paintings, poems and
drawings collected under...