OKEKE, Prof. Ochefuna Christopher

of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1979-81; Visiting Scholar, University of Minnesota, 1981-82; Visiting Lecturer, Department of Creative Arts, University of Port Harcourt, 1986-87; illustrated Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; Stage set designer, Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel and other prominent Nigerian playwrights; Deputy dg. (Africa), International Biographical Centre,Cambridge, England;NNBoard member, OdinaniN Museum, Anambra State; African Studies Project University of Ibadan; mm: Arts Council, African Studies Association, International Bibliophile Association, Paris, Society of Nigerian Artists, Honour: First Prize, Outdoor Painting competition, Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria, 1957; First Prize, Esso Calendar Competition for Nigeria's Independence; Illustrator of the Year, Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO, 1971; Certificate of Honour, 25th Anniversary, Society of Nigerian Artists, 1989. EXHIBITION: Life in Northern Nigeria, Jos and Kaduna, 1956; Exhibition of Mosaics and Stained Glass Windows, Franz Meyer Company, Munich, Germany, 1963; Drawings by Uche Okeke, Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1965; Uche Okeke Graphics, British council, Enugu, 1967; Art of Uche Okeke, Goethe Institute, Lagos, 1983. PUBLICATION: We can learn from Germany, Nigerian Outlook, Enugu, 1964; Nigerian Art is Dynamic, Morning Post, Lagos, 1964. poems: Young Commonwealth Poets: an Anthology of Verse, London, Heinemann, 1965; New Voices of the Commonwealth: An Anthology of Verse, London, Evans, 1968; Tales of hands of Death: Igbo Folk Tales, Zenith Books, Doubleday, 1971; Ekeama, Dance Drama, African Arts, Los Angeles, 1972. off: Asele