Professor Okeke-Agulu specializes in African and African Diaspora art and visual cultures. He is particularly interested in the history of modernism in Africa, and the intersection of art and politics in modern and contemporary art. He is the author, with Okwui Enwezor, of Contemporary African Art Since 1980 L (2009), and he was the editor of the first-ever issue of the journal African Arts (2006). A firm believer in the value of the art exhibition, Okeke-Agulu has written catalogues for and organized or co-organized several canonical exhibitions, including the first major retrospective of Uche Okeke (Lagos, 1993); Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa (London, 1995); The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994 (Munich, 2001); and Who Knows Tomorrow (Berlin, 2010). As an art critic, his writings have appeared in The Guardian (Lagos), Daily Times (Lagos), Artforum (New York), African Concord (Lagos), and Art South Africa (Johannesburg). He is coeditor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of African American Studies, the Journal of Igbo Studies, Calalloo-Art, and the Journal of Contemporary Curating, Criticism & Culture. Professor Okeke-Agulu has lectured and participated in symposiums at museums and universities in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. He has been a Fellow of the Clark Institute (2008) and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow (2010–11), and Clark Visiting Professor at Williams College (2007). A published poet, Okeke-Agulu is also an artist with more than thirty-five one-person and group exhibitions in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States. He is a core faculty member in the Center for African American Studies, and a member of executive board of the Program in African Studies. He serves on the board of directors of Princeton in Africa, is a columnist for The Huffington Post L, and maintains an active personal blog, Ọfọdunka: Art, Life, Politics L.