...Annabelle Mu'azu Copyright © 2008 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2008 TAPPING INTO THE KNOWN CHRISTOPHER & OBIAGELI OKIGBO The Brunei Gallery April 12 - June 23, 2007 As I was preparing...

... bird symbolizes Okigbo who in his poetry also refers to him• Nigerian National Gallery, Lagos...

... Ibadan or Osogbo. Mbari was a club, jointly founded by Wole Soyinka, Beier, Christopher Okigbo, John Pepper Clark, and Ezekiel Mphahlele. Located in Ibadan s Dugbe Market, the site of the Mbari Club was an old Lebanese restaurant converted into an open-air performance venue, an art gallery, a library...

..., 1993. Since 1975, when the en the history of art at Nsukka, is fairly well rep• great extent, it is on these paintings from the pre• artist had his "Homage to Okigbo" exhibit, he resentative of its most significant moments. war period that the artist's reputation...

... a black wall with its intricate sgraffito designs. On encountering the mirror the visitor is not only confronted by his/her own reflection; there is also in the mirrored background poems by Chris Okigbo, Chinua Achebe, Wole Sqyinka, Pol Ndu, Udechukwu, and a few others. Complementing...