Olalekan Odunbori was born and raised in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. He discovered his talent early on while he was in primary school and then decided to take this passion further by studying Fine Art at Yaba College of Technology for his tertiary education. He majored in painting and graduated in 2012. He favored Acrylic on canvas. He is from the Yoruba ethnic group and his ethnicity and people greatly influence and inspires his art. Olalekan’s current style can be described as ‘semi-abstract art’; drawing on the Cubism Movement. His works explore and celebrate the tribulations and triumphs of Africans in a contemporary way and he loves to express his ideas using distorted forms, pure colours, African motifs and patterns.