Ablade Glover’s (b. 1934, Ghana) early education took him across three continents. His Teacher’s training study was at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi between 1957 and 1958. Between 1959 and 1962, he studied textile design at the Central School of Arts and Design, London. He returned to Ghana to teach for a period and then went to the University of Newcastle upon Tyne to study Art Education. He returned to Ghana, again for a brief period, before going on to Kent State University for a Master’s degree and then to Ohio State University for his doctorate.

In 1974 he returned to Ghana, this time for good. He joined the art department at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He would remain there for the next twenty years eventually heading the art school.

In 1995, he set up the Artist Alliance gallery in Accra to create a nexus for displaying the art of Ghanaian artists.

He has exhibited widely, building an international reputation over several decades, as well as being regarded as a seminal figure on the West African art scene. His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, which include the Imperial Palace of Japan, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, and O’Hare International Airport, Chicago, United States.

Glover has received several national and international awards, including the Order of the Volta in Ghana, and he is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. He was Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Art Education and Dean of the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology until 1994.