Francine Kola-Bankole

Department of African Studies and Anthropology
Doctoral researcher

Contact details

PhD title: Activism and Gender within the Arts of Contemporary Nigeria
Supervisor: Dr Juliet Gilbert and Dr Gregory Salter
PhD African Studies and Anthropology

Qualifications

  • 2008 Master of Art, Art History California State University, Long Beach
  • 2008 Graduate Certificate of Museum Studies California State University, Long Beach

Research

My dissertation project studies gender within Nigerian contemporary art through the work of several female artists. I investigate how gender impacts their choice of subject matter, as well as their reception within current sociopolitical contexts.

Other activities

  • 2021 Panelist: Author Meets Readers: ","Engaging Bata Mi A Dun Koko Ka: A Biography of Nike," by Kofo Adeleke. Paper presented at the 6th Conference, Lagos Studies Association June 24, 2022
  • 2019 Panelist: “Mother is Gold, Father is Glass: Nike Okundaye, Art, and Agency.” Paper presented at the 4th Conference, Lagos Studies Association, Lagos, June 27, 2019
  • 2017 Panelist: “Women and Contemporary Nigerian Art: Reception, Support, and Patronage.” Paper presented at the 17th Triennial Symposium, Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), Accra Ghana, August 2017
  • 2014 Chair: Investors, Auction Houses, Art Dealers, Critics, and Curators: Creating Relevance and Value in Contemporary Nigerian Art in the 21st-century. Paper: “Tropes: Nascent Nigeria Art Movements.” Paper presented at the 16th Triennial Symposium, Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), Brooklyn Museum, March 2014
  • 2011 Panelist: “Josy Ajiboye, the Ultimate Prankster: A Political Cartoonist as Egungun.” Paper presented at the 15th Triennial Symposium, Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA). UCLA, March 2011

Publications

  • Kola-Bankole, Francine. 2021. “Traffic, Trash, and Trauma in the Editorial Cartoons of Josy Ajiboye, 1972 – 2006.” In Akinola Lasekan: Cartooning, Art, and Nationalism at the Dawn of a New Nigeria. dele jegede and Aderonke Adesanya, co-editors. Ibadan: Bookcraft Africa, 2020
  • “Josy Ajiboye, the Ultimate Prankster: A Political Cartoonist as Egungun.” African Arts Spring 2020 Vol. 53(1)
  • Book Review, “Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria by Chika Okeke-Agulu. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. African Arts, Winter 2017, Vol. 50(4): 93 – 94, 2017
  • Book Review, Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power and Performance. Jacob K. Olúpọ̀nà and Rowland O. Abiodun, editors. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 2016.
  • H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. 9/2017
  • Book Review, “Making History: African Collections and the Canon of African Art – the Femi Akinsanya Art Collection” by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie. 5 Continents Editions, 2011. African Arts, Summer 2015, Vol. 48(2): 95 – 96