Oscar Mokeme

Oscar Mokeme is the Co-Founder and the Executive Director of The Museum of African Culture in Portland Maine, DBA The Center for Sacred Arts. He has spent most of his adult life collecting, preserving and interpreting African humanistic art. He also conducts workshops on traditional healing practices of the Nigerian Igbo people. Mokeme comes from a long linage of Igbo Royal family healer practitioners called “Umu-dibia.” He is a direct inheritor of this sacred ancient wisdom. He holds the traditional priesthood title of Ugo-Orji and Ozo-dimani of Aborji-Oba in his native country Nigeria. Oscar has been awarded the traditional Arts Master, as a Traditional Healer by The Maine Arts Commission, and was awarded the Jefferson Award for Cultural diversity in the State of Maine.