Chika Okeke-Agulu confirmed as Slade Professor for 2022/23

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We are delighted to announce that Chika Okeke-Agulu has been confirmed as the Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2022/23.

Chika Okeke-Agulu, an artist, critic and art historian, is Director of the Program in African Studies and Professor of African and African Diaspora art in the Department of African American Studies, and Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Born in Umuahia, Nigeria, Okeke-Agulu earned an MFA (Painting) from the University of Nigeria, and PhD (Art History) from Emory University.  For further details, please see here

Professor Okeke-Agulu will be presenting his series of six lectures in Hilary term 2023.  Further details will be confirmed in due course, but it is expected that the lectures will take place in-person at Oxford.