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| Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa OC Nwafor University of Michigan Press, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| Photography: Daguerreotype and the African experience OC Nwafor Mgbakoigba: Journal of African Studies 4, 1-11, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
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| Decolonizing the Modern? Art and Postcolonial Modernism in Twentieth-Century Nigeria O Nwafor Cultural Critique 102, 189-207, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
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| New Online Histories from Memorial Portrait Photographs of Nigerian Nationalists Posted on Social Media O Nwafor Cahiers d'études africaines, 61-91, 2024 | | 2024 |
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| Chike C. Aniakor: The Community and a Congregation of Figural Elements O Nwafor african arts 53 (4), 58-67, 2020 | | 2020 |
| Beyond Borders: Global Africa O Nwafor african arts 52 (3), 75-77, 2019 | | 2019 |
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