back, and he died before he could assume this position. In July 1982, he survived a car crash — although an erroneous radio announcement of his death was made after he was pulled unconscious from the wrecked vehicle — and was subsequently given an artificial hip and confined to bed for 18 months. In the 1990s his work appeared in major exhibitions in Spain, Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands, England, Germany, and the US. Around this time, he also bought land in the village of Sekola, planning to turn it into a Yoruba-themed park and tourist destination entitled "Paradise Resort," but it never came to fruition. In 2000, he moved to Philadelphia, where he hoped to permanently settle, but he was robbed, evicted, and fired from multiple menial jobs. At this low point, George Jevremovic mounted an exhibition for him in 2005 for a generous amount of money and gave him a space to work. He worked here until 2008 when a lack of money prompted his return to Nigeria. Honours he received included Nigerian chieftaincy titles, such as when in January 1996, he was named the Ekerin-Basorun and the Atunluto of Ibadan. In December 1996, he was named the Obatolu of Ogidi. He was designated UNESCO Artist for Peace on 25 May 2005 "in recognition of his contribution to the promotion of dialogue and understanding among peoples, particularly in Africa and the African Diaspora". Twins Seven Seven died aged 67 in Ibadan on 16 June 2011, following complications from a stroke. Twins Seven Seven's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum. Family Twins Seven Seven's grandsons are Azeez Ojulari, an edge rusher for the New York Giants of the National Football League, and BJ Ojulari, an edge rusher for the LSU Tigers. Private collections Olivier Doria d'Angri (Rome/London) The Glendonwyn Collection (Madrid/Tenerife/Dubai) Patrick and Awele Okigbo (Abuja, Nigeria) Discography Slang in Trance (Caravan of Dreams, 1986) With Ronald Shannon Jackson Live at the Caravan of Dreams (Caravan of Dreams, 1986) Notes Sources Twins Seven-Seven, A Dreaming Life: An Autobiography of Chief Twins Seven-Seven, the Ekerin-Bashorun Atunluto of Ibadanland, Bayreuth: Bayreuth University Press, 1999. External links Indigo Arts Gallery 1944 births 2011 deaths 20th-century Nigerian painters 20th-century sculptors 21st-century Nigerian painters 21st-century sculptors Nigerian sculptors Osogbo School People from Kogi State Nigerian twins Yoruba artists