In the years before the outbreak of Nigerian civil war in 1967, a group of students inaugurated “postcolonial modernism” in newly independent Nigeria. In Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria, Chika Okeke-Agulu, a professor of art and archaeology at Princeton, explores how these students and other young Nigerian artists translated the experiences of decolonization into a distinctive “postcolonial modernism” that has continued to inform the work of major Nigerian artists.
