Dele Jegede

He earned his first degree in Fine Arts (with First Class Hons, majoring in Painting) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, in 1973.

A short while after his return to Nigeria in 1983, he resumed his weekly comic strip, Kole Omole, which featured a precocious five-year-old boy, through whom Jegede took subtle jabs at the military regime.

[14] Among his colleagues at the Center for Cultural Studies of the University of Lagos were Bode Osanyin, a strong follower of Bertolt Brecht and advocate of total theatre.

[15] Others there were Joy Nwosu [1] Archived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine, Akin Euba, and Lazarus Ekwueme, foremost Nigerians in the field of music.

He introduced satire into his paintings and focused on themes of social and political import, as in his 1991 exhibition on Lagos, the cultural and financial capital of Nigeria.

[19] In turn, Elizabeth Harney contends that McEvilley's position is an essentialist view of who should speak for whom [20] In a critique of Jegede's work, Niyi Osundare sees Jegede as "...a spontaneous, natural artist, singer, actor, dancer, and verbal aficionado, nurtured by the profoundly vibrant, diverse, and inspiring culture of Ukere in the pre-Independence, pre-Pentecostal days [who] has had, right from the early years, all it takes to be a total artist.