{"id":10427,"date":"2017-02-13T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10427"},"modified":"2017-05-12T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T09:24:48","slug":"okeke-ochefuna-christopher","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okeke-ochefuna-christopher\/","title":{"rendered":"OKEKE,  Prof. Ochefuna Christopher"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visual artist, Designer, illustrator, painter, sculptor; b: April 30, 1933; ht: Nimo; so: Anambra; married Eunice Nwakaego Okadigwe 1966, two sons, two daughters , EDUCATION: St Peter Claver&#8217;s Roman Catholic Mission School, Kafanchan, 1940-47; Metropolitan College, Onitsha, 1948-49; Bishop Shanahan College, Orlu, 1950-53; Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria, 1961. CAREER: Visual Aids Designer, St. Peter Claver College, College of Mary Immaculate Practising School Kafanchan, 1954-55; Organising asst, Jos Museum, Jos, 1956; founded culture Centre, Kafanchan (now Asele Institute), 1958; freelance artist, poet and playwright, from 1961; Publications Artist, Federal Ministry of Information, 1961; employee, Franz Meyer Company, Munich, Germany, 1962-63; dir. Mbari Art Centre Workshop, Enugu, 1964- 67; Drama Participant, Commonwealth Festival London, 1965; Asele Institute, 1967; Head, Visual Arts Section, Refugee Affairs Committee, Aba and Umuahia, 1967-70; ch: Cultural Section, Nigerian National UNESCO Commission, 1971-86; Acting. Head, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1970-71; Head, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University 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&#8217;s Things Fall Apart; Stage set designer, Wole Soyinka&#8217;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&#8217;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 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[168],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10427","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10437,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10427\/revisions\/10437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}