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Known for. Textile artist. Spouse. Twins Seven Seven (divorced) Website. www .nikeartfoundation .com. Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye (born 1951), also known as Nike Okundaye, Nike Twins Seven Seven and Nike Olaniyi, is a Nigerian Yoruba and adire textile designer. She is best known as an artist for her cloth work and embroidery pieces.
Egungun, ( egúngún with Yorùbá language tone marks) in the broadest sense is any Yoruba masquerade or masked, costumed figure. [ 1] More specifically, it is a Yoruba masquerade for ancestor reverence, or the ancestors themselves as a collective force. Eégún is the reduced form (abbreviation through assimilation) of the word egúngún and ...
potter. Ladi Kwali or Ladi Dosei Kwali, OON NNOM, MBE (c.1925 – 12 August 1984) [ 1] was a famous Nigerian potter, ceramicist and educator. [ 2] Ladi Kwali was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was an indigenous occupation among women. [ 3] She learned pottery as a child through her aunt ...
J. F. Ade Ajayi. Jacob Festus Adeniyi Ajayi, commonly known as J. F. Ade Ajayi, (26 May 1929 – 9 August 2014) was a Nigerian historian and a member of the Ibadan school, a group of scholars interested in introducing African perspectives to African history and focusing on the internal historical forces that shaped African lives. [1]
Titles. 1. A Picture Of Innocence – A. Mhlope. 2. Agony In Her Voice – Peter Katuliiba. 3. Angel Of Death – Nandi Dlovu. 4. Anything For Money – Akinbolu Babarinsa.
Adire (textile art) Adire ( Yoruba) textile is a type of dyed cloth from south west Nigeria traditionally made by Yoruba women, using a variety of resist-dyeing techniques. [ 1][ 2] The word 'Adire' originally derives from the Yoruba words 'adi' which means to tie and 're' meaning to dye. [ 3] It is a material designed with wax-resist methods ...
Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
Akwete cloth is a hand woven textile produced in Igboland for which the town of Akwete, also known as Ndoki, both which the cloth was named after in Abia state, Nigeria is famous. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Alternative names include "Aruru" meaning "something woven", "Mkpuru Akwete" and "Akwete fabric". [ 4][ 3] This traditional Igbo weaving processes sisal ...