And the legend finally comes
to an end; Professor Uche Okeke - the great master and pioneer finally goes
home to his maker leaving the ‘sensitive lines’ with us. As the originator of
Ulism, the great son of Okeke worked the lines to frenzy as he ‘doodled’ his
way right from the formative days in the 1950s, to the lofty heights we behold
of him and his rich legacies. It was in the 1950s when as a student in the fine
art department of the Nigerian College of Arts, Science, and Technology (which
later became the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria) that his modernist tendencies
shone clearly whiles he experimented with the motifs and philosophies of his
native Igbo folklore.
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| Uche Okeke (1933 - 2015). Photo: Shelley Kusnetz |
