Odhiambo Siangla
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Odhiambo Siangla (Fredrick Odhiambo Siangla), born in 1961, Kenyan Fine artist, Scholar and Educator. A visual artist who was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania and Temple University.
Life and art
He accepted his first teaching position in America at the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, Mercyhurst College in 1992. In 1993 he joined University of the Arts as a lecturer in Humanities. Later he taught African aesthetics as an adjunct professor at Temple University. He was a member of the National Afrocentric Institute 1995-1996. He presented the first of his series of lectures on the African Origin of Knowledge to the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, ASCAC, at the International House in Philadelphia, in 1996. He has been active in what he calls 'forensic epistemology', serving as a subject and being expert-witness in the anthropology department at Temple University by joining and studying their Ph.D. program through action research. He is a co-developer of a popular educational organization, Charter School Services, CHSS, a leading academic support services in the Delaware Valley region.Siangla taught mathematics and physics at Mombasa School in Kenya (1984-1985). He still mentors these subjects as a continued community service in the Church of the Atonement in Germantown, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Awards
Siangla has been the recipient of numerous academy honors and awards. Among them are:- Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship
- Samuel David Memorial Prize
- The Watkins Memorial Grants
- The Charles Toppan Prize
- The Thouron Prize
- The Mindel Caplan Kleinbard Award
- The Alexander Prize
- The William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship.
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