Biography
Olu Oguibe was born in Aba, Nigeria, in 1964. An award-winning artist, academic, and writer, he has worked as a professor of art and African American studies and was a fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in 2000. He was a senior fellow of the Smithsonian Institution in 2006, and a resident scholar at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy in 1999. He has published three books of poetry: I Am Bound to this Land by Blood (2013), A Song from Exile (1990), and A Gathering Fear, which won the 1992 Christopher Okigbo All-Africa Prize for Literature.
Poetry Collections
I Am Bound to this Land by Blood: Collected Poems (Uhie, 2013 ); A Gathering Fear (Bayreuth: Boomerang Press, 1992); A Song from Exile (Bayreuth: Boomerang Press, 1990)
Sources
“Olu Oguibe,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Oguibe Accessed 4 June 2022 The Sylvia H. Williams Gallery. “Olu Oguibe,” https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/olu.htm. Accessed 5 June 2022. Vera List Center for Art and Politics. “Olu Oguibe Fellow, 2000,” https://veralistcenter.org/network/olu-oguibe/. Accessed 5 June 2022. Plexus.org. “Olu Oguibe Biography,” https://plexus.org/oguibe/bio.html. Accessed 5 June 2022.
