Lamidi fakeye biography samples

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Fakeye, Lamidi Olonade, 1924-2009. Conversations with Lamidi Fakeye / Ohioma Pogoson & Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon. Lagos, Nigeria: Revilo, 2012. 164 pp. illus. (color), map. NB1099.N53 F35 2012 AFA. OCLC 826712386.

Lamidi Fakeye died before this book was published. How fortunate then that Yemisi Shyllon had taken the initiative to interview Fakeye at length and in multiple sessions to capture the sculptor’s story in his own words. Ohioma Pogoson led the interview team. More interviews were planned but death intervened. Still we are left with a rich and valuable narrative of Fakeye’s life and work. Shyllon owns 43 Fakeye sculptures, all illustrated here, which Fakeye elaborates on—the iconography, symbolism and decorative elements of each sculpture.

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Fakeye, Lamidi Olonade, Bruce M. Haight and David H. Curl. Lamidi Olonade Fakeye: a retrospective exhibition and autobiography; [exhibition] DePree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, Holland, Michigan. October 11-November 22, 1996. Kalamazoo, MI: Oak Woods Media, 1996. 229pp. illus. (pt. color), bibliog. (page 227). NB1080.5.L36 1996 AFA. OCLC 36077665.

Lamidi Fakeye has been more successful than most African artists in straddling cultures and negotiating competing identities. His "career on two continents" is the epitome

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Of Tradition, the NOW and the Bridge: Analysis of Seven Decades of Lamidi Olonade Fakeye’s Artistic Legacy”,

Of Tradition, the NOW and the Bridge: Analysis of Seven decades of Lamidi Olónàdé Fákéye’s Artistic Legacy by Babáséhìndé Adémúlèyá Ph. D Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Omo Abógundé, òjé ará òjowòn Kújénrá ará àgbó kán’nké ké Olójowòn eni mo gbé’gi rébété re‘lé oba Àrè mo pa’gidà mo so’gi dènìyàn Àrè òjé bí mo gbé ‘nà bí ò tà Kújénrá bí mo gbé ‘nà bí ò pé Olójowòn ma ro’ko, ma fi mó’sé se Ma sò’wò, ma sì ná’jà lò’jé Gbígbé làágbé, a kì’rùú ló jè ilé Omo adé opón re’lé oba Àrè òjé omo abù’rókò lówó lówó Bí baba wa ó bà bí àgbè nìnù A gé igi lu’su apépe T’ólóko bá nbínu, a tún bì’míì wó Omo a gba’wìn òlèlè sí’gi lórùn Baba Ògúnmódadé Oríkì (Fákéye 2008) Fákéye Lamidi 2008 Personal Communication, Oríkì idile Praise- chant of the Oje lineage of which the Fakeyes belong Introduction Olónà-dé: Orúko omo níí ro omo Sometimes in 1938 at Okerimi about three kilometres to Ila Orangun, an incident occurred at Eesorun compound where Oyebamiji, the junior wife of Fákéye Àkóbí Ògún lived. This symbolic incident was predictive of what this essay celebrates. While still in his tender age, at a time all his age mates were running around th