By Chika Okeke-Agulu, a Nigerian art historian, has been elected as a fellow of the British Academy.
According to Book Art Ville, he is one of the 85 Fellows elected in 2022 from around the world into the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences which was founded in 1907.
Okeke-Agulu is a Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies at Princeton University in New Jersey, United States of America. He is also the Director of Princeton’s Programme in African Studies.
An accomplished author and essayist, some his writings have appeared in African Arts, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Internationalism, Artforum International, New York Times, Packett, South Atlantic Quarterly, and October.
He is currently the co-editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and also writes for Huffington Post and maintains the blog Ọfọdunka.
Okeke-Agulu’s emergence as a British Academy Fellow comes barely a month after he was appointed as Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art of University College London (UCL).
