Francine Kola-Bankole Department of African Studies and AnthropologyDoctoral researcher Contact details Emailfxk135@student.bham.ac.uk 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