AT HOME IN THE WORLD, a memoir

253pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Sarjah & Milan, 2021

Sudanese artist, writer, critic and teacher Ibrahim El-Salahi on the most formative experiences of his career and his encounters with figures such as the African American modernists Hale Woodruff, Jacob Lawrence and members of the Spiral Group; the leader of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, and the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo.

Ibrahim El-Salahi was born in 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, and currently lives and works in Oxford, UK. He completed his degree at the Slade School of Art in London and then returned to Sudan to teach at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum, where he inspired a movement now known as the Khartoum School. He also spent a number of years working for government, establishing the Sudanese Embassy’s first ever Department of Culture.