OKECHUKWU NWAFOR

Domaine de recherche	l'Afrique
Pays de résidence	Le Nigeria
Titre	DR
Affiliation	NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA.
Adresse électronique	penncils@yahoo.com
Adresse	P.O.BOX 2238, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria.
Téléphone/Télécopie	+2347060445288
Pays de spécialisation	Nigeria,
Éducation	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).
Recherche	Visual History, Art History, Dress History of Lagos, African Fashion System, African Popular Photography, Politics and Aesthetics in Africa, Painting.
Enseignement	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.
Mots-clés	Aso ebi, African Fashion, Visual History, Photography, African Art History.