Obiora Udechukwu

**Obiora Udechukwu**  onye amụrụ na 1946 bụ nwaafọ Nigeria na-ese  ihe òsìsè ma bụrụkwa ode abụ

Á mụrụ ya na Onitsha na 1946 nyere nne na nna si Agulu na Anambara Steeti, Naịjirịaa, ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ  otu afọ na Mahadum Ahmadu Bello tupu ọ gafee na Mahadum nke Nigeria, Nsukka site na ibu agha megide ndị Igbo nọ na mpaghara ugwu Naịjirịa. N'oge alụrụ agha obodo Naịjirịa, nke a makwaara dị ka agha Biafran (1967-1970), Udechukwu rụrụ ọrụ na ngalaba Propaganda  ma sonye na ọgbakọ ndị nka na ndị odee  nke ode abụ bụ Gabriel Okara na onye omenkà Uche Okeke duziri . Mgbe agha biri, ọ laghachitere na Nsukka, mezue asambodo bachelo ya na ngalaba fine art, tinyere ederede banyere nka igbo Uli mural art, n’afo 1972. N’afọ 1973, a họpụtara ya dịka Onye Mmekọ na Ngalaba Fine Arts, ebe ọ natara nzere Master of Fine Arts ya ,na 1977. A matara ya dịka onye ndu n'ụlọ Akwụkwọ Nsukka, nke Uche Okeke dubuuru, onye jere ozi dịka onye isi nke ngalaba nka ruo 1985. Mgbe ọ nọ na Nsukka, Udechukwu ghọrọ onye guzobere Aka Circle of Exhibiting Artists, nke gụnyere El Anatsui, Tayo Adenaike, na ndị nka ndị ọzọ bi na mpaghara ọwụwa anyanwụ Nigeria. O jere ozi na kọmitii nhazi Okike*: African Journal of New Writing nke eguzobere* na Nsukka site na onye ọde akwụkwọ Chinua Achebe . A họpụtara ya dịka Prọfesọ nke Painting na Nsukka na 1986. N’oge ọchịchị ya, ụmụ akwụkwọ ya gụnyere Tayo Adenaike, Olu Oguibe, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Marcia Kure, na Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie . N’afọ 1997, Udechukwu ghọrọ Dana Professor nke Fine Arts na Mahadum St. Lawrence, na Steeti New York. O bi na Canton, NY.

Udechukwu na etinye  *Uli* n'ọrụ ya kwa mgbe ,Na 1970 gụrụ gawa ọ webatara akara *[[Nsibiri|nsibidi]]*, ya na usoro eji asa ink nke ndị nka China mara akwụkwọ.  Ọtụtụ n’ime ihe osise ya na mbipụta ya na-egosi ndị mmadụ nkịtị; oru ya n'oge agha bụ nkpalite mmụọ gosipụtara  oke nhuju anya ọ hụrụ. Site na etiti 1970, isi okwu ya sitere na nkpuru ihe omuma banye na nkọwa nke ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị.

## Ihe ngosi nka
Udechukwu enwekarịala ihe ngosi karịrị iri abụo na ise nke naanị otu onye gosipụtara na Nigeria, England, Zimbabwe, Germany, na United States.

## Nchịkọta ọha
Ọrụ nka ya dị na nchịkọta nke National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos; National Council nke Arts na Culture, Lagos; Center for cultural studies, Mahadum nke Lagos; Iwalewa-Haus, Mahadum nke Bayreuth, Germany;  Museum fur Volkderkunde, Frankfurt / Main, Germany; Bradford City Museums and Galleries,Bradford, England; Smithsonian National Museum nke African Art, Washington, DC; Newark meseum.

## Abu

* *What the Madam said*, (1990), onye mmeri nke Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize, 1990.

## Ịgbakwunye amamihe

* Chika Okeke-Agulu, *Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text* (Milan: Skira Editore, 2016)
* Kristen Windmuller-Luna, “A Nigerian Song literatus: Chinese literati paint concept of the Song Dynasty in the modern art of Obiora Udechukwu,” *Rutgers Art Review* Vol. 29, 2014
* Simon Ottenberg, sources and themes of Obiora *Udechukwu*, in African ''Arts'', *summer* 2002.
* Chika Okeke-Agulu, “Obiora Udechukwu,” *Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art* 9 (1998), 46-51.

## Ébém si de

* Bio from National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, https://web.archive.org/web/20110709171811/http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/obiora.htm
* Profile of the poet ,Sentinel poetry 
* Marie-Helene Boisdur de Toffol and others, *An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century*, Distributed Art Publishers / Editions Revue Noire; English edition (2002),  ISBN 1-891024&nbsp;

## Nrụtụaka

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