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Whenever he met a potential customer, Jegede asked them whether he was allowed to draw their portrait. 105: 41, August 1986; Peter ptures Life's Reality with a Brush i( Hun st 18, 1987. Born April 19, 1945, he was a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He taught at Spelman College, Atlanta as Visiting Fulbright Scholar, when he curated the exhibition, Art By Metamorphosis.

Right from my childhood, I was exposed to religious syncretism more in observance than as a discrete philosophical ideology. "Paradise Battered," National 1'heatre, Lagus, July 4-18, 1986. By the time he was hounded out of office, still within the period under review, Nigerians were clamoring for the golden 70s. illus , bibliog.

On 30 November 1989, Jegede was elected president of the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA) and from 1993 and 2005 he was an art history teacher at Indiana State University, where he was also chairman of the art department. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Indiana State University, Terre Haute and Professor of Art at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

The third area where there has been a remarkable change is the repatriation of the nation’s patrimony. It was a close call. Of course, I relished the scenarios that my rebelliousness conjured. "Contemporary Afncan Art," Art Papers (Atlanta) 12 (4): 22-26, July-August 1988. Pre-University Art: Catalogue ofExhibition Sponsored by the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of LagO: fertile 1984 Convocation Ceremony, January 1984.

illus., bibliog. Training: Yaba College of Technology, 1965-1969; E\ (First Class lions) in fine irts, Ahmadu Bello University, 1973; MA, 1981 and PhD in art history, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, 1983. Students of the Department of Fine Arts, Ahamdu Bello University, Zaria [and] Lagos, ca.1974 "Nigerian Art in the 70's," University of Ife, Ile-Ife, March 16-April 20, 1976.

One of the fatuous rationalisations adduced to counter requests for the return of these looted artworks was that they were too fragile to travel, as if they might throw up in flight, or suffer a heart attack in transit. Member: Ai ts Council of the .African Studies Association; Nigerian Society for Education Through Art; Society of Nigerian Artists.

That came soon after my primary school education in December 1958.