•To honor El Anatsui @ 80, their fallen heroes too

By FRED IWENJORA

Members of AKA, the most notable exhibiting arts group in Nigeria plan another round of exhibition round Nigeria and beyond.

This will see the artists all now in their late 60s, 70s and 80s exhibiting some of their art works in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu and Ghana.

According to a founding member of the group respected all round artist Bona Ezeudu, the new AKA arts dance planned for some time in October 2024 is to ‘honor some of our members who have passed and also to celebrate one of us El Anatsui who just turned 80 and revered as one of 100 most influential people of the world”.

“These fallen heroes of AKA are Ifedioramma Dike, Samson Uchendu, Boniface Okafor, Chike Ebebe and Nsikak Essien.”

Ezeudu who at 27 years of age set up one of the first art galleries in Enugu noted that at inception, AKA circle of artists were 13 members with 5 members having passed on.

He also noted how reverred senior artists including arts historian Chike Aniakor, Obiora Udechukwu, wood pecker El Anatsui, and himself gathered and decided to bring in together other talented artists who had held exhibitions in order to form the AKA group of exhibiting artists.

He also traced the many exploits of the group since it was formed in 1985 and their first exhibition in 1986 in Enugu and later in Lagos, PH, Abuja and France.

He did not give away venue and artworks for this coming exhibition adding that it would be giving out in due course.

Today, AKA members are namely;

Bona Ezeudu

Obiora Anidi

Chike Aniakor

Chris Afuba

Tayo Adenaike

Obìora Udechukwu

El Anatsui

Chris Echeta

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