The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art.(Book Review) From: African Arts | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Salami, Gitti | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Regents of the University of California. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art Edited by Simon Ottenberg Seattle: University of Washington Press and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2002. 330 pp. 46 b/w & 35 color photos. $40.00 softcover

As a collection of conference papers which emerged out of the symposium "The Nsukka Group and the State of Nigerian Contemporary Art," held at the National Museum of African Art on October 19-20, 1997, this book gives voice to a multiplic...

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