Anya fulu ugo: The political implications of Africa in the works of Obiora Udechukwu and El Anatsui

Okechukwu Nwafor

Abstract


Between the 24th of June and 8th July, 2015, the Department of
Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
organized a homecoming art exhibition and conference for El
Anatsui and Obiora Udechukwu, two of the most important
artists of the Nsukka School. This article is an attempt to use
this exhibition, launched under the rubric of Anya Fulu Ugo
(translated literally in Igbo as 'the eyes that see the Eagle'), to
examine the diverse, unexpected, and controversial ways in
which Udechukwu and Anatsui's thematic and formalistic
concerns may have entered into the political debate about
African aesthetic and its cogency in the global imaginary.


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