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.
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] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Okediji, along with Kunle Filani and others were part of the art movement called Ona, the movement sought to reference Yoruba adages, proverbs, and visual concepts in their art works adjusted to modern Nigerian realities of the twentieth century.
[3] During the period, he also edited a short-lived magazine called Kurio Africana.