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Ibrahim el Salahi (Ibrahim Mohammed El-Salahi, b. 1930, Omdurman/Sudan) is a key figure of African modernism. Beginning in 1957, he taught art in Khartoum, Sudan, at the College of Fine and Applied Arts, sparking a movement now known as the Khartoum School. He was Director of Culture and then Undersecretary of State in Sudan's Ministry of Culture and Information. In 1975, he was imprisoned without trial for six months on charges of being involved in a coup against the government. Today he lives in Oxford, England. El-Salahi studied fine arts at the School of Design of Gordon Memorial College (later the University of Khartoum) and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

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