Whether it is singer Nina Simone, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, Nigerian afrobeats star Fela Kuti or Nobel winner Wole Soyinka, his works cut across the worlds of music, sports and literature.
Born in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, in the suburbs of Paris, the artist says his early influences were manga and comics. And for him, there is no better place than Lagos, a megacity of some 20 million people and a mecca for capitalists on the continent. Last year, when mass youth protests against police brutality rocked Nigeria, he made a portrait of one of the leading activists, Aisha Yesufu, with a raised first and slogan saying"stop the bleeding".
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