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Article: Sources and themes in the art of Obiora Udechukwu.
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- African Arts
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- June 22, 2002
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Me to the orangery
solitude invites,
a wagtail, to tell
the tangled-wood-tale;
a sunbird, to mourn
a mother on a spray.
Christopher Okigbo, "The Passage," from Heavensgate (in Okigbo 1971:4)
Obiora Udechukwu belongs to the generation of artists influenced by Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya, and Solomon Irein Wangboje, who forged a strong base for contemporary Nigerian art. Now one of Nigeria's most distinguished artists, he is becoming familiar outside Nigeria, particularly in Germany and the United States.
As a youth Udechukwu developed two identities, urban and rural. He was born in 1946 in the large Igbo trading center of ...