The Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, recently celebrated Nike Okundaye’s 55 years of promoting traditional and contemporary African art. It was also an opportunity to mark her
72nd birthday as an accomplished artist. Funmi Ogundare reports
Mama Nike, as she is fondly called, is the managing director of the Nike Centre for Art and Culture, as well as the curator of the Nike Art Gallery located in Lagos, Oshogbo, Osun State, Ogidi-Ijumu, Kogi and Abuja. With her intriguing infusion of entrepreneurial skills into arts, Okundaye has, at various times, participated in several solo and joint exhibitions within and outside Nigeria, as well as conducted workshops and training in the area of textile, mosaics and paintings, embroidery, quilts, and costumes. She is also an art administrator, dancer, singer, and philanthropist.
“Nike is steeped in Yoruba philosophical thoughts, understands the value of indigenous knowledge systems, and therefore is very well educated. She is a living treasure; her depth of knowledge is not only about the artistry and production of textile art but the meaning and value of textiles as verbal forms of communication, art, and language,” Layiwola stated. “Textiles also reflect religious and cultural beliefs and reveal the richness of our value system.
“She became an unwelcome guest in Oshogbo because the men were claiming that she was encouraging their wives to revolt against them,” Oyeweso explained. “When you see a woman of this nature, then you know that there is an uncommon thing about her.”
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