The Culture Game by Olu Oguibe University of Minnesota Press, 2004 "An acclaimed artist and cultural provocateur reveals the hidden biases of the contemporary art world." See publisher's website for details Authentic/ Ex-Centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art Edited by Salah Hassan and Olu Oguibe Forum for African Arts, Inc., 2001 Distributed Art Publishers, 2002 Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held to critical acclaim as a satellite of the 2001 Venice Biennale, "Authentic/Ex-centric" offers a glimpse of the ways in which African and African Diaspora artists have interpreted and translated the aesthetic and social experiences of post-colonial Africa into new idioms of artistic expression, and argues for their proper location in the broad narrative of global conceptualism. Essays by Olu Oguibe, Salah Hassan, Siemon Allen, Sally Berger, Annie E. Coombes, Rory Doepel, Okwui Enwezor, Maryline Lostia, Gilane Tawadros, Christian Viveros-Faune. Afterword by Els Van Der Plas & Damien Pwono. Artists include: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Willem Boshoff, Godfried Donkor, Rachid Koraichi, Berni Searle, Zineb Sedira & Yinka Shonibare Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace Edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor inIVA and MIT Press, 1999 "The essays in this anthology map the significant shifts in recent criticism which have helped reframe not only debates around visual culture from the African continent but also the discipline of art history generally...a particularly valuable contribution." Dr. Annie Coombes Birkbeck College, University of London Uzo Egonu: An African Artist in the West Kala Press, London, 1995 "This insightful study is the most sophisticated and intensive full length study of a modern African visual artist." Simon Ottenberg, Emeritus Professor University of Washington, Seattle "Informative, incisive, its magisterial sweep matches the artistic achievement of Uzo Egonu." Obiora Udechukwu, Distinguished Dana Professor, St Lawrence University Sojourners: New Writing by Africans in Britain Edited and with an Introduction by Olu Oguibe Africa Refugee Publishing Collective., London, 1994 "A significant literary landmark." - Wasafiri Ben Okri . Dambudzo Marechera . Mandla Langa . Zaya Yeebo . Ifi Amadiume . Ad'Obe Obe . Dayo Okunola . Brandon Broll . Su Andi . Taata Ofosu . T-Bone Wilson . Esiaba Irobi . Kio Bob-Manuel . Stella Oni . Russel Carey . Khadiru Mahdi . Ezinne Ogbonna . Gbenga Agbenugba . Eva Alaneme. Cross|ing: Time. Space. Movement: Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, 1998 "Cross|ing presents the work of African artists who, though no longer bounded by the old affiliations of geography and race, inevitably reflect (on) their common claim to Africa. It features the work of five female and five male artists from the north of the continent to the south, across racial divides, artists who by the nature of their practice and cultural milieu belong in a larger world and divide their time between Africa and other centers of contemporary cultural practice, artists who traverse the numerous geographies of contemporary art and reality, whether physical, conceptual, or metaphysical." The Battle for South Africa's Mind: Towards a Post-Apartheid Culture Africa Refugee Publishing Collective, London1994 In conversation with Olu Oguibe, South African artist, poet and teacher Pitika Ntuli raises questions over the direction of the new South Africa and its attitude to culture as he explores issues that must be addressed if South Africa is to depart from its painful past. A Gathering Fear: Poems Boomerang Press, Bayreuth, 1992 Kraft Books, Ibadan, 1992 [second edition] "A brilliant but unpredictable, angry young man, Olu Oguibe reminds me of another young man who thirty years ago discovered his talents at Nsukka - Christopher Okigbo. Okigbo's spiritual quest was taking place in a general ambience of political and social optimism. Today a spiritual search is compounded by physical road-blocks. Oguibe confronts them, and describes them with visionary eloquence." Chinua Achebe Songs for Catalina Limited edition, Savannah Press, London, 1994 Songs for Catalina was written in two weeks in London during the summer of 1993 after a trip to Mexico. In the historic city of Guadalajara, founding place of independent Mexico, I had met a young woman whom I instantly adopted as my muse and for whom the poem was written. The poem was published in London in 1994. It was read on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in October, 1994 by the poet Ahmed Sheik, and is published in limited edition by Savannah Publications, London. The book comes with an original linocut print, also in limited edition. A Song from Exile Boomerang Press, Bayreuth, 1990 I wrote A Song from Exile in London during the autumn and early winter of 1989, shortly after I arrived England. Two hundred and twenty-four lines long and arranged in eight movements, the poem was in the tradition of my earlier work with the extended form. It was hailed upon publication and has been aptly described by Stewart Brown of the University of Birmingham as "a lyrical account in eight parts exploring the [author's] feelings of anger, shame and despair at being away from the society that abuses yet feeds his creative spirit." West Africa Magazine described it as "an eloquent testimony." It has continued to meet warm responses especially from those who share the experience of exile.