Engaging with Fibers, Fabrics, and Figures in Nkoli Ka Exhibition

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Notes

1. Uli is the name given to the traditional designs drawn by the Igbo people of Nigeria: strongly linear, frequently asymmetrical, they do not have deep perspective, but do balance positive and negative space.

2. See “Nigeria: How Rats chase President Buhari from office,” BBC News, August 22, 2017, accessed March 19, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-41011988.

3. See “Fake news started in Genesis, Pope Francis says”, Punch, January 25, 2018, accessed March 19, 2018, http://odili.net/news/source/2018/jan/25/804.html.

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Chukwuemeka Nwigwe

REVIEWED BY CHUKWUEMEKA NWIGWE

Chukwuemeka Nwigwe teaches fashion design and art history at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he completed his doctorate in art history in 2015. Nwigwe’s recent research has been on the Boko Haram crisis, which has been ravaging the northern part of Nigeria, especially since 2009.

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