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CBCIU CELEBRATES 2024 BLACK HISTORY MONTH

28 February, 2024

The Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU) today hosted the 2024 Black History Month (BHM) tagged The Art of Blackness in accordance with the global theme which focuses on “African Americans and the Arts.”

Prof. Siyan Oyeweso, Director, CBCIU during the delivery of his address

Chief Fakayode Faniyi during the delivery of his address as the Chairman of the Programme

The BHM welcomed four panelists in persons of Dr. Oluwafunminiyi W. Raheem (Osun State University), Dr. Mojeed Animashaun (Fountain University), Dr. Charles Omotayo (Adeyemi Federal University of Education) and Olawale Yemisi (University of Ilorin), who interrogated the place of visual arts, films, and music connected to black history, identity, and power relations with the Wider World.

At the event were Curator, National Gallery of Art, Mr. Adodo Sunday and staff of the National Gallery of Art, Osogbo; Chief Faniyi Fakayode Agbongbo,Awo of Osogboland; Chief Mrs. Adedoyin Faniyi; Mr Fatai Adekunle, former Curator, National Commission for Museum and Monuments and staff of National Commission for Museum and Monuments; Omooba Wale Olayemi; Mr. Stephen Oni; students of the Department of Tourism and Department of Philosophy, Osun State University, Osogbo, and many others.