"African Artists in the Age of the Big Man". Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu
17 February 17:00 to 18:00
Examinations School, (South School), High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BG
Prison Drawing: Ibrahim El Salahi in Al Nimeiry’s Sudan, 1970s
"Two years after its political independence from Egypt and Britain in 1956, Sudan witnessed the first of many military coups that have been a recurring feature of the country’s postcolonial history. In this lecture, I focus on the calligraphic figuration of Ibrahim El Salahi (b. 1930), the country’s leading modernist and onetime political prisoner. I show how the sophisticated formalism of Salahi’s drawings constituted a meditative critique of General Jaafar Al Nimeiry’s dictatorship (1969-1985), which survived multiple coups d’état, by stoking religious and ethnic crises, and systematic suppression of all political opposition".
Lecture will take place in-person. All welcome to attend.
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Prison Drawing: Ibrahim El Salahi in Al Nimeiry’s Sudan, 1970s
