Master artist and father of Nigerian modernism, Uche Okeke, would have turned 86 this year had he not passed away on January 5, 2016. On Tuesday, April 30, 2019, the Ugoma Adegoke-led Bloom Arts in concert with the Asele Institute…
7 Things you did not know about master artist and poet, Uche Okeke
The tragedy of ancient black civilisation was the fact that so few of what the ancients knew was written down and whatever is not written down is difficult to transmit from generation to generation and so knowledge ends up being…
Plaudits for Uche Okeke: Poet, painter and prophet – Toni Kan
In reflecting upon Uche Okeke’s paintings, poems and drawings collected under the handle, Art In Development – A Nigerian Perspective, one is constrained to appropriate a Roman Catholic analogy; Asele is Uche Okeke’s patron saint and Ana is the deity.…
The Didi Museum journey to mastery – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Legendary institutions almost always start from very trivial incidents. As a child, Newton Jibunoh had a much adored younger sister named Edith. In his stammering, the young Newton could not get to grips with pronouncing the name Edith. What always…
