20 Nigerian Contemporary Artists You Should know

Akinola Lasekan, 1916-1972 (painter and cartoonist)

Lasekan was born in Owo, Ondo State in about 1916. He started to practise art on his own after he left school. In 1941, he became a freelance artist. he started as a textile designer and later became a cartoonist, a painter and illustrator. His best known works are the portraits of Sir Winston Churchill and six allegorical paintings entitled Nigerian in Transition. He was the daily cartoonist of West Africa Pilot Newspaper from 1948 to 1961. He rose to become Acting HOD, Fine Arts Department, University of Enugu, Nsukka.