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Romuald Tchibozo received his PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2003 and committed his thesis subject to ART and Arbitrary: A Study of the Perception of Contemporary African Art in the West: The German case from 1950 to the Present. Now a professor, he teaches Contemporary Art and International Cultural Relations concerning African art throughout the world at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin. He gives introductory courses in Art History at the Regional Center for Cultural Action of Lomé in Togo. He was Lecturer of Art History at the History Department and at the Institute of Information Science, Communication and Arts (ISICA) at the University of Lomé in Togo. His recent research focuses on the evolution of contemporary art in Benin, but is also related to the evolution of art in the pre-colonial and colonial period, particularly in the Kingdom of Porto/Novo under King Tofa I. He examined these heritage issues in his article The Gèlèdè, a sub-regional artistic development argument, published in 2011, and, furthermore, analysed issues related to practices of art history in Benin in his article A point about the seminar, published in 2007 in Is Art History Global?.