Lagos, Nigeria
Dr. Amara Okonkwo
Chair — Contemporary African Art
Art historian and former senior curator at the National Museum of Lagos. Her scholarship traces the continuities between Yoruba sacred art and the contemporary canvas.
Curatorial Council
The custodians of authenticity.
The Council is the authority responsible for the standards, scholarship and cultural integrity of every work presented through FAACCE. It is composed of scholars, master practitioners and cultural custodians from across the continent.
Accra, Ghana
Prof. Kwame Mensah
Council — Material Culture & Craft
Authority on West African textile traditions, with three decades of fieldwork across the kente, adinkra and bògòlanfini lineages.
Dakar, Senegal
Mme. Adèle Diallo
Council — African Fashion & Couture
Founding editor of a Pan-African fashion review, and one of the continent's most respected voices on couture as cultural inheritance.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tewodros Bekele
Council — Documentary & Moving Image
Filmmaker and archivist whose restoration work has recovered foundational films from East Africa's post-independence cinema.
Council Governance
The Council operates independently of acquisition and commerce. Its only mandate is the cultural integrity of what FAACCE presents to the world.