Millie Elizabeth Odutokun is an Administrative staff in the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria...

She holds a Masters degree in Public Administration, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Administration and a result-driven Deputy Registrar, with over 25 years of extensive experience overseeing top level Administrative and Management operations. Millie Odutokun is an expert at identifying organizational and administrative deficiencies, developing effective procedures , policies and deploying technological solutions to enhance performance and increase productivity. Millie received awards of honor for her “Committed service to humanity” and “Best supporting Staff” She was also awarded a Goodwill Ambassador to the Association of Fine Arts Department of the Ahmadu Bello University She has participated in several international workshops such as the “2nd AFU International Conference” towards Advanced Scientific Knowledge in Business Sciences (2018), and “Gani and His Influence” – An exhibition of Paintings at the Brunai Galary Central London, January, 2000 Till date, Millie also functions as the lead secretary to several committees in the Ahmadu Bello University.Millie Millie was Gani’s wife and she Chairs the board of the Gani Odutokun Foundation.

Professor Jacob Jat Jari. His qualifications include B.A. Fine Arts (1981) from the Ahmadu Bello ...

University, Zaria, M.A. Art History (1984), P.G.D.E. (1987), M.F.A. Painting (1994) and PhD Art History (2007). Jari was a beneficiary of the Leventis Research Co-operation Programme at the Centre of African Studies, University of London, (2003). He joined the academic staff of Ahmadu Bello University in January 1989. He has been a Professor since 2008. Jari has several academic publications in peer-reviewed journals, books and exhibition catalogues. He has exhibited widely and has participated in the initiation of historic art projects in Africa, which have created the forum for the advancement of scholarship in the visual arts. These include being a founding member of The Eye Society and the Aftershave Workshop. Art Mongering, an informal university community gathering each Wednesday at 7 to 8pm, which he initiated in 2004, has continued to provide an informal platform for artistic dialogue among students and staff. He has been curator to major art exhibitions, which have interrogated trends and development of contemporary Nigerian and African art with global implications such as the Accident and Design exhibition held at the Brunei Gallery, London in 2000. He was a student of Gani, later a colleague and very much a dear friend. Jari Jacob is the foremost authority on Gani Odutokun’s art. He was Head of the Department of Fine Art, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from 2005 -2007 and Dean, Faculty of Environmental Design of the same university from 2013 - 2015. In recognition of his academic leadership in the visual discipline, Jari was appointed external examiner to many universities including Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda from 2006-2008 and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana from 2010 to date. He has also been a National Universities Commission resource person on postgraduate and undergraduate programmes.

Peter A. Badejo is one of Nigeria’s foremost choreographers, dancers, and African performance specialists...

He is founder and artistic director of Badejo Arts, a British-based performance and training company. In Britain since 1990, he has made a dramatic impact on British arts in general. Along with other artistic luminaries, he was an original member of Ola Rotimi’s Ori Olokun Theater in Ile-Ife during the 1960s. There, he developed his natural talents alongside his youthful artistic friends and was later attracted to the Nigerian Center for Cultural Studies in Zaria. NCNS sponsored the furtherance of his training and educational development at the School of Performing Arts in Legon at the University of Ghana, and subsequently at UCLA, where he completed his MA degree in Dance Ethnography. Gani Odutokun was one of his best artistic friends and companion artist. Peter Badejo’s commitment to African performing arts is reflected in his research conducted through the Universities of London, and his time as a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey’s Dance Department. In 2001, he received the Order of the British Empire (OBE), as a recognition of his achievements with the production and notoriety of African Dance and Performance Arts in Britain. On March 22, 2013 at Finsbury Town Hall, London, the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora (ADAD) awarded Peter Badejo with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the development and practice of Dance of the African Diaspora in the UK. In Nigeria, he served as the Dance Director for the Lagos Black Heritage Festival (2012-2015) and as the Artistic Director for the All-Africa Games Festival (2012). His work and reputation as a choreographer and performing artist opened the way for his extraordinary talents to be shared around the globe in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Caribbean. In 2017, he was celebrated as a “Platinum Jubilee Honour for a Living Legend and Dance Ambassador” in Nigeria.

Jerry Buhari is a professor of fine art in painting drawing, design and theory of art with the ...

Department of Fine Art at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. He joined the teaching staff of the same Department in 1982 as a Graduate Assistant and rose to the rank of Professor. He was a student of Gani Odutokun and later his colleague, office mate for thirteen years and friend.

Niniola Mercy Dalmeida is an Administrative Officer. She is currently the H.O.D (Admin) at ...

the Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI), Kano State, Nigeria, where she has worked since 2018. She is an English and Literary Studies graduate from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna state, Nigeria and holds a Masters in Public Relations (MPR) from the Department of Communications, Bayero University, Kano. She is also an art enthusiast and a founding member of the Gani Odutokun Foundation and is passionate about discoveries from the exploration Gani’s art.

Temidayo Odutokun is the founder and creative director of Temi Odutokun Photography. She is an artist, ...

author, poet and a history enthusiast. She holds a BFA in painting as well as an M.A in Art history from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. She is Curator at the National Gallery of Art, Nigeria, (Kaduna) where she has worked since 2011. She is a founding member of the Gani Odutokun Foundation and is passionate about documenting Gani and discoveries from exploring his art.

Bukola Osuntuyi is a Management Consultant who’s building startups and sustainable structures in ...

human capital development. Bukola is the founder and Principal consultant of Customer Fest Africa, and cofounder of Asho, an e-commerce company that empowers African creatives by enabling them to digitally sell their products to the global market. Bukola who is also the Director of Operations at Swipebill Technologies (Float) and founding member of the Gani Odutokun Foundation is a Theatre & Performing Arts graduate of the Ahmadu Bello University Nigeria.

Omolola Odutokun is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and holds a B.A in Graphics Design ...

as well as a diploma in Graphics Design from the same institution. She has worked and partnered with several notable brands within the retail and creative industry in Africa and currently leads multiple creative and social development projects. Omolola who is the Founder of Styleby.Lola Creative Agency Limited is a multitalented art enthusiast in areas of Fashion and Styling, Photography, Interior Design, Graphics Design, and Event management.

Stephen Ajadi is the founding Principal of RUBAN and the African Contemporary Institute...

of Design (ACID). He has led RUBAN+ACID to be one of the outstanding emerging practices in Africa. He also founded Penumbra Space, foundation focused on providing social and physical infrastructure for displaced people. He is an award-winning Architect, Planner and Scholar. Amongst others; he won the FESA Prize for the most outstanding architecture in 2010, the Yakubu Gowon National Prize for writing in 2011 and a Norman Foster RIBA honorary mention in 2013. He is also a 2015 Commonwealth Alumni. He holds a list of professional certifications and honours. He is a member of the Cambridge Land Society, the Silver Street Group and the Cambridge Thinklab. He is also a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Stephen has multiple postgraduate degrees in Architecture, Design, Management, Economics, Sustainability and Innovation—all with distinctions. His work pivots around, Architecture, Planning, Circularity, and the Political Economics of conflict. His leadership of RUBAN+ACID has led to productive interactions of architecture, management and planning across Europe, Africa and the USA. This has been with many individuals/organisations which include ETH Zurich, MIT, Columbia, Cambridge, Tesco (UK), BREEAM (UK), BAM Construction (UK), Delta Development (USA & Netherlands), Turntoo (Netherlands), Ouroboros (Denmark & Norway), The Heinrch Böll Foundation (Nigeria, Germany), The London Waste and Recycling Company, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (UK), BT (UK) and the NHS (UK). He is an Institut Francais de Recherche en Afrique Fellow (Paris & Nigeria). His recent academic engagements include, the University of Berkeley, California, Kingston School of Art (UK) and the University of Lagos (Nigeria). He is currently managing a research project funded with nearly $2 million over the next 5 years. Stephen is currently a doctoral scholar at the university of Cambridge where he founded and directs the Cambridge Initiative for African Urbanism. He also supervises graduate and undergraduate work at the Cambridge Judge Business School as well as the Department of Land Economy. His research is on a multidisciplinary approach to the spatial impact of conflict and violence on open spaces.

Seli Alisah is an architect who has been practicing for over ten years, after earning his bachelors ...

and masters degrees from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He has a particular interest in reconstructing and refurbishing living spaces. A member of DG Green Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to exploring and developing sustainable design and architecture. Also a founding member of CYCSF: Children-Youth Creativity Star-Hunters Foundation dedicated to developing strategies for advancing and encouraging creativity in youth and children. He loves aesthetic gardening in his free time.

Olorunfemi Kinrin is a visual artist. He schooled in the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, ...

where he graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts (Painting). Even though he never met Gani, he was greatly influenced by Gani’s works as a student. Femi lectured in the Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, for 12 years, before going to the Pennslyvania State University, USA, to earn an MFA degree in Drawing and Painting. His paintings are focused on themes of Humanity and Discrimination. He is interested in Figure Painting. He is an avid fashion enthusiast and he loves to draw.