Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria

by Chika Okeke-Agulu

Book Overview

Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of civil war in 1967. Chika Okeke-Agulu traces the artistic, intellectual, and critical networks in several Nigerian cities. Zaria is particularly important, because it was there, at the Nigerian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357461
• ISBN13: 9780822357469
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.8"