Africa

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Professor

SOAS, University of London

jp17@soas.ac.uk

Nigeria

Nigerian art and archaeology, especially Yoruba, Benin, Northern Edo, Niger-Benue cultures

Disciplinary problems in the history and sociology of art; the visual culture of Africa and the diaspora; the art and archaeology of Nigeria; Yoruba and Benin sculpture; Ebira, northern Edo and Niger-Benue confluence cultures; textiles, masquerade, painting; Protection of antiquities; history and anthropology of visual arts; the legitimate development of art collections for museums; current and past traditions of visual practice in the contexts of cultural, ethnic, political and national identities.

(2011) "Ebira masquerade and its histories" and "Ebira and the Niger-Benue confluence: material culture and masquerade; artifact and identity revisited"
In: Central Nigeria unmasked: arts of the Benue River valley. Edited by Marla C. Berns, Richard Fardon, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA.

(2009) With Charles Gore.
"Denis Williams in Africa: A New Approach to its Arts and Technologies." In: Denis Williams, a life in works: new and collected essays. Edited by Charlotte Williams and Evelyn Williams, Evelyn, Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, pp. 153-168.

(2008) "Seeing and wearing: textiles in West Africa," In: The poetics of cloth: African textiles, recent art. Edited by Lynn Gumpert. New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University.

(2005) "Made in Africa" In: Africa remix: contemporary art of a continent. Edited by Simon Njami. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz; New York: [Distributed by] D.A.P.

(2003) With Geroge Chemech and John Pemberton III
Ibeji: the cult of Yoruba twins. Milan : 5 Continents.

(2002) "Neo-Traditional Sculpture in Nigeria" and "Coffins and Funeral Art" and "Tradition and the 20th Century" In: An anthology of African art: the twentieth century. Edited by N'Goné Fall and Jean Loup Pivin. English language ed. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers ; Paris: Revue Noire Éditions, African Contemporary Art.

Nigeria ; Yoruba ; Ebira ; Niger-Benue