Born in an agricultural area of Central Nigeria in 1992, Oliver Okolo had two dreams as a child: one of becoming a basketball star and the other of becoming an artist. He combined his two dreams into a series of handmade comics of himself as a basketball star. Drawn to the works of classical artists—especially the Old Masters, he was accepted as an apprentice to Clement Nwafor, an Abuja-based Nigerian artist who beautifully mixes fabric collage and portraiture in his realist paintings...
