SYLVESTER OKWUNODU OGBECHIE, Professor of Art History at the University of California Santa Barbara, is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts Research and the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist and Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art Collection. He is editor and co-author of Artists of Nigeria and founder/editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. He consults on African and African Diaspora arts for major museums in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America.