Ablade glover biography books

Ghanaian artist and educator (born )

Ablade GloverFGAFRSACV (born ) is a Ghanaian painter and educator. He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene.^[1] His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, which include the Imperial Palace of Japan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France,^[2] and O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, United States.^[1]

Glover has received several national and international awards, including the Order of the Volta in Ghana, and he is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.^[3] He was Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Art Education and Dean of the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology until ^[4]

Early life and education

Born in the La community of Accra, in what was then the Gold Coast (