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Ndidi Dike 
Textural Dialogue On Wood 
Does an eclectic use of images and symbols from different African symbol systems merely imply a devotion 
to a stereotypical idea of Africa rather than a systematic engagement with specific African traditions, as 
critics of Dike's work sometimes claim? I posit that the convergence of visual languages in Ndidi Dike's woi 
is an legacy of our age of images in which photographic representation and technophilia acts as a grid that 
conditions our cognition and perception of art and cultural practice. 
- Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie 
Art Historian, Northwestern University 
GALLERIA ROMANA, Ikoyi, Lagos - 2000
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COVER ILLUSTRATION: 
Ablade Gtover, Beachscape, 1993, oil on canvas.
The only 
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Ablade Glover 
Until 1994 Glover was Associate Professor 
and head of the department 
of Art Education and also dean of the 
College of Art at the University of 
Science and Technology, Kumasi, 
one of Ghana's leading artists, he is 
the artistic director of the Artists Alliance 
Gallery in Accra. 
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CulturaTperception £ performances 
Adewale Maja-Pearce 
Formerly consultant editor to 
Heinemann's African Writers Series 
(AWS) and Africa-editor for the London-
based free-speech magazine, 
Index-on-Censorship. Now he lives in 
Lagos. 
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Charles Nnolim 
Prominent literary critic and university 
instructor. He is currently the dean 
of Arts and Social Sciences at the 
University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 
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dele jegede 
Now of the school of Art of Indiana 
State University in Terre Haute. He 
was resident cartoonist with leading 
Nigerian newspapers including The 
Punch. He is also one of Nigeria's 
best known artists and visual art 
scholars. 
Chinua Achebe 
Leading novelist and polemicist. Has 
been living outside Nigeria for more 
than a decade, based in Amandale, 
New York. 
Chux Okei Ohai 
Young and yet-to-be-published novelist 
and writer of short stories. He 
lives in Lagos. Tomorrow harbours the unknown, 
but today is certain Steve Voce 
Music critic, writer for The Independent.