Olu Oguibe on life as an artist, a writer and an activist on the global stage.

Описание: Between 1983 and 1985, he was a radical student union leader at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His activism earned him a suspension and a lot of good trouble there. He still graduated as the best student in his class and of all time from the Department of Fine Arts. He later earned a Ph.D. in Contemporary and African Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

For years, he taught at numerous universities worldwide, the last of which was the University of Connecticut, where he was a Professor of Art and African-American Studies. He was also a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York City, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

He started publishing poetry at 14. His first collection of poems, A Gathering Fear, won the 1992 Christopher Okigbo All-Africa Prize for Literature.

As a practicing artist, he has had one-person exhibitions in Nigeria, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, Cuba, Australia, and many others. His most important work, Monument to Strangers and Refugees, a public sculpture in Königsplatz (King's Square) in Kassel, Germany, was awarded the Arnold Bode Prize in July 2017.

His most recent exhibitions were last two months in Berlin, Germany, and Milan, Italy.

Olu Oguibe is an art historian, art curator, and leading contributor to post-colonial theory and new information technology studies.

In a recent Facebook post, Olu Oguibe says he dislikes traveling anymore or even getting around. He dreams of the day when the art world will finally start buying his work, and he'll make lots of money, set up a charity, and retire to monastic life in some remote sanctuary where he can continue to work until "his number is called."

The pastor's son, who was once a child preacher, advertised his epiphany in a recent Facebook post. "I used the critical skills that he (My father) imparted to me to determine in my early youth that religion is no longer necessary, and a foreign faith even less so," he writes.

He now deploys his righteous anger developed in his early years in secular sermons.

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