20 Nigerian Contemporary Artists you should know
Jimoh Akolo:Painter and Art Educator. 
Born in Kwara State in 1935. 
1952 and 1955, he came under the direction of Dennis Duerden, an art teacher, at Government College, Keffi. In 1961, he obtained a Diploma in Fine Art, specialising in Painting.
Between 1964 and 1965, he was at the Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. where he obtained a diploma and Master of Science in Art Education. He was later appointed as Professor in 1983 by Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he has been teaching since 1966. His works won the first prize in the Nigerian Festival of Arts and in the self-government Exhibition of Northern Nigeria. In 1961, one of his paintings won an honorary mention in the Beinnal at Sao Paolo, Brazil. He usually paints human activities and uses different colours that are not the natural colour of the figures.

20 Nigerian Contemporary Artists you should know.
Bisi Fakeye: (Sculptor): 
Fakeye was born in 1942 in Illa -Orangun, Osun State of Nigeria. He is a wood carver. He trained under his older brother, Lamidi Fakeye for five years before setting up his own carving studio in Lagos. He has exhibited his carvings in Nigeria and abroad. Some of his works include Sango in Mahogany, Destiny in wood etc.

20 Nigerian Contemporary Artists you should know.
S.A.Adetoro:(Textile Designer): 
Alhaji Adetoro was born in Lagos and he had his elementary and secondary education there. After graduation from the then Ahmadiyya College at Agege, he worked briefly as a clerk in the Ministry of Communication and Nigeria Ports Authority, Lagos. Because of the in-born creativity in him , he proceeded in 1964 to study Fine Art at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. After graduation in 1968, he thaught Fine Art briefly at Ansar-ud-deen High School, Surulere. He later proceeded for a three-year post-graduate studies in textile design and decoration. He once worked at Yaba College of Technology in the Art and Printing Department as a Lecturer. Some of his works are : Lizard man(Batik), Royalty(Prints), Landscape(Batik)

20 Nigerian Contemporary Artists you should know.
Felix Idubor:(Sculptor): 
Felix Idubor was born in 1925 in Benin City, Edo State.
 Initially, he was a self-trained Artist and became a member of Benin Carvers Association. He later studied Art at the Royal College of Art, London. Since then he has taught Art at Edo College, Benin City and Sculpture at Yaba Technical College and opened the Idubor Art Gallery in Lagos, where artists are trained. His many exhibitions in Nigeria included the Nigerian Independence Exhibition of 1960. He has also exhibited in Britain, Germany and Zambia. Some of his commissioned works include carved doors for the Oba of Lagos, a more than life-size sculpture titled Mother Africa in front of Nigeria's National Gallery of Modern Art, National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos.

Legends of Old Africa:
Oduduwa and Ile-Ife

The Yoruba regard Ile-Ife as their place of origin, as told in the creation myth.When great god had been sent to earth he became very thirsty and drank palm wine, and lay down to sleep. As he was away long time, god sent his brother, oduduwa to continue the work of creation. This he did and supplanted great god in ownership of the land. Oduduwa is regarded as the first king of Ife and the founder of their race. He was a strong personality.