Archives: Instructors

Name: Professor D. O. Makinde PhD (African Art Studies) Rank: Professor

Name: Mr. I. F. Adeyanju M Phil (African Art Studies) Rank: Lecturer I

Name: Mr. M. A. Okunade M Phil (African Art Studies) Rank: Senior Lecturer

Name: Professor Babasehinde A. Ademuleya PhD (African Art Studies) Rank: Professor

Simeon Tolulope Oyeneye is an Assistant Lecturer and Art Historian with a strong academic and professional background in Nigerian and African art studies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s degree in African Art Studies from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from Tai Solarin University of […]

Michael Olusegun Fajuyigbe is a Professor of Art and African Art Studies whose scholarship interrogates African modernism, indigenous aesthetics, art pedagogy, and artistic futures. His research bridges art history, sociology of art, and cultural theory, foregrounding institutions as dynamic sites of continuity, contestation, and future-making.

Olusegun Jide Ajiboye, was born in Lagos in 1968 by artist-parents; Josy Ajiboye (painter and cartoonist) and Christiana Adunni Ajiboye (tie-dye and batik designer). After his elementary training at Methodist Primary School, Mushin and secondary school education at Eko Boys’ High School, also in Mushin, he obtained a National Diploma in General Arts (1989) from […]

Nanashaitu Àdùkẹ Umoru-Ọ̀kẹ́ is a Professor in the Department of Fine & Applied Arts at Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ University Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria, specializing in ceramics and art history. My research focus has been on potters’ biographies, confined perceptions; modes of practice and stylistic approaches to pot making in Yoruba culture. My research work includes historical and socio-cultural […]

Emmanuel Olaniyi ABIODUN is a textile artist, researcher, and educator whose practice centres on embroidery, yarn painting, and contemporary textile discourse. He holds both a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Fine and Applied Arts and a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Textile Design from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. His teaching and research interests span […]

Isaiah Túndé Ògúnjìmí (PhD) is an art historian and teaches Art History at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Ọbáfẹ ́mi Awólọ ́wọ ̀ University, Nigeria, and a postdoctoral research fellow with NRF/DST SARChI in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Arts of Africa and the Global South research programme, at the Department of […]