Prof. Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Prof. Okechukwu Charles Nwafor is a PROFESSOR in FINE AND APPLIED ARTS Department, Faculty Of Environmental Sciences in Nnamdi Azikiwe University
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Staff Profile
I am a professor of Art History and Painting at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. I was a Forsyth Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of the History of Art, the University of Michigan, United States of America, where he taught two courses in the Winter of 2019. My first book published in 2021 by the University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor is titled 'Asọ ebì: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa.' My articles have appeared in many journals including Postcolonial Studies, African Studies, Nka, Journal of Contemporary African Arts, Critical Intervention, African Arts, Cultural Critique, Fashion Theory among others.
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Address: | Fine And Applied Arts, Faculty Of Environmental Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. |
Faculty/Unit: | FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES |
Department/Sub-Unit: | FINE AND APPLIED ARTS |
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Academic Qualifications
| Degrees / Basic Certificates | |
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| 1 | University of Michigan, United States. (Post-Doctorate Degree, February, 2020) August, 2019 to September, 2020 Post Doctoral Art History |
| 2 | University of Michigan, United State. (Post-Graduate Degree, December, 2018) August, 2018 to December, 2018 Post Doctoral Art History |
| 3 | University of the Western Cape, South Africa. (Doctor of Philosophy, March, 2012) March, 2009 to March, 2012 PhD Visual History |
| 4 | University of the Western Cape, South Africa. (Post-Graduate Degree, March, 2009) February, 2008 to October, 2008 PGD Visual History |
| 5 | Nnamdi Azikiwe University. (Master Degree, July, 2004) June, 2000 to July, 2004 MFA Fine And Applied Arts (Painting) |
| 6 | University of Nigeria Nsukka. (Bachelor Degree, December, 1998) June, 1993 to December, 1998 BA Fine And Applied Arts |
Relevant/Working Experience
| 1 | Professor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University October, 2018 to Present |
Creative Output
| Books | |
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| 1 | Okechukwu Nwafor. (2021, May) 1. Nwafor, Okechukwu Aso ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021. University of Michigan Press |
| Journal Articles | |
| 1 | Okechukwu Nwafor. (2020, November), "“Chike C. Aniakor: The community and a congregation of figural elements,”", African Arts, Vol. 53, (Issue 4), pp 58–67 |
| 2 | Okechukwu Nwafor. (2019, November), "Decolonising the Modern: art and postcolonial Modernism in twentieth century Nigeria", Cultural Critique, Vol. 102, pp 189-207 |
Relevant Events Attended
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| 1 | "the Annual Conference of the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI)", (the University of the Western Cape), the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town |
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| 1 | "Seminar at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa", (WISER), Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa |