Biography
Okwui Enwezor was born in Calabar in Nigeria in 1963. In 1982, after a semester at the University of Nigeria, Enwezor moved to the Bronx. In 1987, he earned a bachelor of arts degree in political sciences at the New Jersey City University. Teaming up in 1993 with fellow African critics Chika Okeke-Agulu and Salah Hassan, he launched the triannual Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art from his Brooklyn apartment. After putting on a couple of small museum shows, Enwezor had his breakthrough in 1996 as a curator of In/sight, an exhibit of 30 African photographers at the Guggenheim Museum.
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