Moyo okediji biography

Yoruba historian

Moyo Okediji is an art historian, painter and artist whose works contains a number of icons and signifiers of the deep aspects of Yoruba culture.^[1] He was part of Ona, an art movement at Obafemi Awolowo University.

Early life and education

Okediji was born in Lagos in 1956; his family hails from Oyo town, in Oyo state.

Moyo okediji biography

His father, Oladejo Okediji, moved to Ile-Ife when Okediji was young and he spent most of his adolescent years in the ancient town. In 1977, he completed a degree in painting at the University of Ife, thereafter, he worked as a graduate assistant in the Faculty of Arts at the university.

Okediji later earned a master's degree at University of Benin and returned to the University of Ife as a lecturer. While in Benin, he was influenced by the techniques of Guyanese painter Doris Rodgers who included decorative elements of African origin in her works.^[2]

Work

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Okediji, alo