Chief Ngogo Obene George Douglas of Buguma

( - 1984)

Source: http://www.nmafa.si.edu/./exhibits/sokari/church.htm 

Sokari

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Father of Sokari Douglas Camp, a West African-born artist. In 1984, on the death of her father, she created Church Ede, a monumental kinetic sculpture reminiscent of a Kalabari funeral bed, as a tribute to her father. Sokari Douglas Camp lives and works in London. She went to the California College of Art and Craft, and then graduated in 1983 from the Central School, London, before gaining a masters in sculpture from the Royal College of Art, in 1986.