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Cole, Teju

LC control no.n 2010014999
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR9387.9.C67
Personal name headingCole, Teju
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeNigeria
Birth date1975-06-27
Place of birthKalamazoo (Mich.)
Field of activityHistory
Profession or occupationHistorians Photographers Authors
Found inOpen city, 2011: ECIP t.p. (Teju Cole)
www.zeleza.com, Mar. 12, 2010 (Teju Cole was raised in Lagos, Nigeria; author of a novella, Every day is for the thief, and a novel, Open City)
Known and strange things, 2016: ECIP t.p. (Teju Cole) data view (PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIC FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE and a frequent contributor to many publications including The New Yorker and The Guardian; in 2014 New Africa magazine named him one of the most influential Africans of the year)
Wikipedia, viewed August 11, 2016: (Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian; b. Kalamazoo, Michigan to Nigerian parents; moved him to Lagos; he moved back to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Western Michigan University for one year, then transferred to Kalamazoo College, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1996; enrolled in an African art history program at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, then pursued a doctorate in art history at Columbia University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York)
Associated languageeng