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Let Us be Reminded that Benin Art is Court Art
I have been watching the scenario unfolding over the repatriation of Benin artefacts and I am surprised at some of what I read and watch on television. It shows that either we have no sense of history or we have decided to set facts aside in pursuit of self-interest....
Excerpt from the ‘Body Blue’ Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0FhYFuy8&t=2s
2021 LSA Distinguished Scholar Award goes to Peju Layiwola
2021 LSA Distinguished Scholar Award The Lagos Studies Association (LSA) is pleased to announce that Peju Layiwola, Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Lagos, is winner of the 2021 LSA Distinguished Scholar Award. Previous recipients of the award...
Peju Layiwola becomes President of the Art Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA)
In November 2004, the first-year students of the Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, attended an art seminar at the university guest houses. It was the first formal academic gathering for the students of that set – lectures had not resumed at the period....
Resist! The Art of Resistance at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany
Finalising plans for the curation of 'It's Yours' gallery in the exhibition, Resist! The Art of Resistance at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany which opens in January 2021. This exhibition opens with the inspiring poem by Christie Akumabor on Benin. It...
Link to the Lecture, Spread out the Cloth at the African Cluster, University of Bayreuth
https://www.pejulayiwola.com/post-three/https://mms.uni-bayreuth.de/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=718bfaf1-2fa0-4653-8d32-ac6f01542046
A success story for Nigeria
I heard about the train from Lagos to Ibadan but still did not have the courage to try it. I decided instead to go by the long and tortuous traffic-ridden express road to Ibadan-a road I have plied so many times since 2002 when I began teaching at Unilag. Anyway, I...
Lecture/ Bayreuth
Spread Out the Cloth: Exploring Yoruba Fashion and Textile Modernity, Opening Artist Lecture of the Winter Term 20/21 session by Peju Layiwola, African Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Join Zoom Meeting...