Born in 1945 in Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria, artist, teacher, cartoonist, and art historian Dele Jegede studied art history at Indiana University in 1979-1983. From 2002 to 2005, he was a professor of art and head of the Department of Art at Indiana State University in Terre Haute.
For years it was hard to find anything about Dr. Jegede on the Internet, least of all images of his art. That has changed. There is a lengthy Wikipedia page on him. From that I have learned that in 2018, he was inducted into the Society of Nigerian Artists Hall of Fame. There is also an entry on Dele Jegede on the website Africa Cartoons: Encyclopedia of African Political Cartooning. Here is a link to the main page:
https://africacartoons.com/cartoonists/
And here is a link to the page on Dr. Jegede himself:
https://africacartoons.com/cartoonists/map/nigeria/jegede-dele/
Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Jegede for the recognition he has received.
Copyright 2022 Terence E. Hanley
