Also known as the "Zaria Rebels." Artists who, while studying fine art during the late 1950s and early 1960s at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology at Zaria, belonged to a student activist group known as the Zaria Art Society. Art Society members rebelled against their art department's Eurocentric curriculum and encouraged one another to study and document the art forms, cultural practices, and folktales of communities indigenous to Nigeria. The group's most important contribution was its formulation of "natural synthesis," an artistic strategy that sought to combine influences from Western modern art and indigenous visual culture in order to generate a novel, distinctly Nigerian modernist aesthetic. Former members - including Uche Okeke, Demas Nwoko, and Bruce Onobrakpeya - have come to be closely associated with Nigerian modernism and with what the art historian Chika Okeke-Agulu (2015) has termed "postcolonial modernism."