Moyo ogundipe biography sample

By  Niyi Osundare

On the first day of  March this year,  the art world lost  Moyo Ogundipe, one of Africa’s most gifted artists and original thinkers.

Moyo was my classmate at Christ’s School, Ado Ekiti, in the late sixties, and for the past 50 years this remarkable human being and I had been friends and fellow workers in the turbulent vineyard of art and culture.

Generous, proud,  humorous, amiable, easy-going and refreshingly unconventional, Moyo impacted the world with the depth of his mind and genial currency of his spirit.

Reproduced below (in a slightly modified form) is my contribution to his first major exhibition in Nigeria  eight years ago, upon his return to the country after many years of busy sojourn abroad. I can never get used to missing this kindred spirit and unique human being:

In one of our epistolary exchanges in the late 1970’s, Moyo Ogundipe explained why he had decided to quit a high-profile advertising job some had th