By Nigerian artist Wole Lagunju (born 1966), Black Girl V (Ibori), 75 x 57.5 inches, oil on canvas, 2025, ©️ Wole Lagunju. #art #blackartist #blackartists #AfricanArt #africanartists #africanartist

From Montague Contemporary: “Wole Lagunju practices a visually stunning form of Onaism, wherein he appropriates Western cultural artifacts and combines them with Yoruba cultural artifacts, notably Gelede masks, to challenge the audience to consider how we often look at culture through a Western lens.

The Gelede masquerade is a performance celebrating motherhood, fertility, and femininity - and combining these themes with Western cultural icons, he evolves our understanding of the role of Yoruba culture - and broadly African art - to reframe our perspective.⁣ Sampling from a wide variety of cultural iconography across history - from Dutch Golden to Elizabethan to fifties Americana to Nigerian adiré batik - Lagunju’s paintings are both fashionable but also imbued with layers of inspiration and meaning.

Lagunju’s cultural references, mined from the eras of colonization and decolonization of the African continent critique the racial and social structures of the 19th century whilst evoking commentaries on power, femininity and womanhood.
Wole Lagunju is a 1986 graduate of Fine arts and graphic design at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Lagunju has exhibited widely in Nigeria, United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.

His works are included in various private and public art collections including the Denver Art Museum, St Louis Art Museum, the Toledo Art Museum, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art (promised), the World Bank, the Norval Foundation, The United States Art in Embassy Collection in Nigeria, the Africa First Collection, the Ashley Longshore Collection, the Mack Collection, the Glasser Collection, the Chinn Collection, amongst others.”

By Uche Uguru (born 1993), Queen African Series 6, collage on canvas, 100x80cm, 2025, ©️ Uche Uguru. #womanartist #womenartists #africanartist #africanartists #art

From the artist’s Instagram: ‘The Queen African painting shows a strong and beautiful Nigerian woman. She wears a headwrap, which is a special part of Nigerian traditional clothing. Her face looks straight at the viewer with confidence.
The painting is made from small strips of paper, which creates a sense of movement. You can also see lines on her face that look like scars. In some African cultures, scars were used to identify people. But these scars can also represent the difficult challenges African women face, like emotional pain or environmental problems.
Queen African celebrates the beauty, strength, and resilience of African women. It reminds us that we should support and care for each other, and that together, we can create a better world.

As Adetutu Alabi says, "You can be anything you want to be.
Don't let your scars hold you back.”’

The artist’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ucheuguru/

Tope Alabi Biography, Age, Husband, Children, Net Worth, and Music Career

Early Life

Tope Alabi was (born October 27, 1970, 54 years old), in Lagos State, Nigeria, to Pa Joseph Akinyele Obayomi and Madam Agnes Kehinde Obayomi. The talented singer is the only daughter of the three children in the family.

#TopeAlabi #NigerianMusic #AfricanArtists

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