OKECHUKWU NWAFOR

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Nigeria
Title	DR
Affiliation	NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA.
Email	penncils@yahoo.com
Mailing Address	P.O.BOX 2238, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.
Phone/Fax Number(s)	+2347060445288
Countries of Specialization	Nigeria,
Education	1. 2012. Ph.D, (Visual History), University of the Western Cape, South Africa. 2. 2008. Postgraduate Diploma in African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. (Cum Laude). 3. 2004. Masters of Fine Arts, (MFA), Fine and Applied Arts, (Painting Major), Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. 4. 1998. Bachelor of Arts, (BA), Fine and Applied Arts, (Painting Major), University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, (Second Class Honours Upper Division).
Research Interests	Visual History, Art History, Dress History of Lagos, African Fashion System, African Popular Photography, Politics and Aesthetics in Africa, Painting.
Teaching Interests	African Art History, History of Photography in Africa, Painting Theory, Visual History, The intersections of Fashion and Photography. Aso ebi Aesthetics, Art and Society in Africa.
Publications	Okechukwu Nwafor (2013): “The Fabric of Friendship, Aso ebi and the Moral Economy of Amity in Nigeria” African Studies, (Published by Routledge), 72:1, 1-18. Nwafor, Okechukwu (2011). “The Spectacle of Aso ebi in Lagos: 1990-2008,” in Postcolonial Studies (Published by Routledge). Vol.14. No.1 February 2011, pp.45-62. Nwafor, Okechukwu (2011). “Culture, Corruption, Politics, National Museum of Unity Enugu and the struggle for the survival of cultural institutions in Nigeria”, Critical Interventions. Vol.7 Fall, pp.118-131. Nwafor, Okechukwu (2012). “From Asia to Africa, Tretchikoff, the People’s Painter,” Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. Vol. 31, Fall 2012. pp. 157-161. Nwafor, Okechukwu (2012). "Black Biography." In Heidi Grunebaum and Emily Maurice. Uncontained, Opening the Community Arts Project Archive. Cape Town: Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, pp.98-102. Nwafor, Okechukwu (2012). “Of mutuality and copying: fashioning aso ebi through Fashion Magazines in Lagos” in Fashion Theory, Vol. 16, Issue 4. pp.493-520. Nwafor, Okechukwu (2011). “Dele Jegede: On Flower Power and witty distortions of Nigeria’s Power and System Failure” in Toyin Falola, (ed.) Dele Jegede: Artist, Cartoonist and Scholar. (New Jersey: Africa World Press), pp. 113-228.
Keywords	Aso ebi, African Fashion, Visual History, Photography, African Art History.