Azeez Kayode Fakeye (born 1965), is a Nigerian sculptor.
Biography
Azeez Kayode Fakeye was born in 1965 in
Ibadan
Ibadan (, ; ) is the Capital city, capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the List of Nigerian cities by population, third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano (city), Kano, with a total populatio ...
,
Nigeria
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. The Fakeye family is a multigenerational group of
Yoruba sculptors,
and he is related to Lamidi Fakeye,
Akin Fakeye, and
Lukman Alade Fakeye
Lukman Alade Fakeye (born June 25, 1983, in Ibadan) is a Yoruba Nigerian sculptor and woodcarver. The youngest in the Fakeye family of carvers, he is a nephew of Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, who carved the doors of the African Room at the Kennedy Center ...
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References
External links
*http://www.grainsofafrica.co
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070721002655/http://www.grainsofafrica.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=36_3
*http://www.folkcuba.com/botanica_ht/fakeye_hmpge1.htm
*http://grains-of-africa.blogspot.com/2008/09/traditional-modern-yoruba-art-fakeye.htm
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1965 births
Living people
20th-century Nigerian sculptors
21st-century Nigerian sculptors
People from Ibadan