# Azeez Kayode Fakeye

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{{short description|Nigerian sculptor}}
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'''Azeez Kayode Fakeye''' (born 1965),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Object : Male Figure Holding a Gong [2017.60.51] |url=https://providence.hope.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/5046 |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=[Kruizenga Art Museum](/source/Kruizenga_Art_Museum), [Hope College](/source/Hope_College)}}</ref> is a Nigerian sculptor.

== Biography  ==
Azeez Kayode Fakeye was born in 1965 in [Ibadan](/source/Ibadan), [Nigeria](/source/Nigeria). The Fakeye family is a multigenerational group of [Yoruba](/source/Yoruba_people) sculptors,<ref>{{Cite web |date=1999 |title=The Carver Among Us, Lamidi Olonade Fakeye |url=http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/gallery/lamidi/artist_family.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412000718/http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/gallery/lamidi/artist_family.html |archive-date=2009-04-12 |website=National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> and he is related to Lamidi Fakeye, [Akin Fakeye](/source/Akin_Fakeye), and [Lukman Alade Fakeye](/source/Lukman_Alade_Fakeye).

== References ==
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== External links ==
*http://www.grainsofafrica.com/[http://www.grainsofafrica.com/]
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070721002655/http://www.grainsofafrica.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=36_38 [https://web.archive.org/web/20070721002655/http://www.grainsofafrica.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=36_38]
*http://www.folkcuba.com/botanica_ht/fakeye_hmpge1.html [http://www.folkcuba.com/botanica_ht/fakeye_hmpge1.html]
*https://grains-of-africa.blogspot.com/2008/09/traditional-modern-yoruba-art-fakeye.html [https://grains-of-africa.blogspot.com/2008/09/traditional-modern-yoruba-art-fakeye.html]

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Category:1965 births
Category:Living people
Category:20th-century Nigerian sculptors
Category:21st-century Nigerian sculptors
Category:People from Ibadan

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