FRAGMENTS OF POETIC MEMORY: THE ART OF RASHID DIAB

Salah Hassan, Assistant Professor of African Art History at the State University of New York at Buffalo, received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a visiting professor at Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, and was a J Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow for 1992–1993. He is author of Art and Islamic Literacy among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria (The Edward Mellen Press, 1992) and curator of Creative Impulses/Modern Expressions: Four African Artists, an exhibition of contemporary African art held at the Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University (1993)