Ben Enwonwu’s 1971 painting “Christine” fetches £1.1m after Google search

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Funmi Adubi uses waste paper to make flowers & other decorative items using various techniques of paper craft to promote the importance of recycling.

Besides being a singer, Stanley Aneto is also creative in other ways without harming the environment and paints with different colored lights. Though his art and music he reminds us of the need to care for nature.

Experimental artist, Diseye Tantua is creating unconventional furniture using car parts from the '90s. The 44-year-old, Ghanian-Nigerian says he hopes his pieces will help preserve the history and memories he believes are contained in the pre-loved vehicles.

Olarinde Ayanfeoluwa is a 22-year-old self-taught artist who makes unconventional portraits by scribbling on canvases in Nigeria.

Young Sudanese celebrate in Khartoum and react after generals and opposition leaders signed the documents that will govern Sudan's three-year transition to civilian rule.

A Bansky painting depicting the British Parliament full of primates has sold for a record $12 million at auction. The secretive artist criticized the sale as being against his principles.

Irmela Mensah-Schramm has been found guilty of property damage for painting over neo-Nazi slogans. Many Germans were outraged that she was fined on the same day as a deadly anti-Semitic attack in the city of Halle.

Painting by Ben Enwonwu, a Nigerian artist named "African Mona Lisa" originally christened as 'Christine' has been sold at auction in London for £1.1m after the family who owned it googled the signature and realised its importance.

Masked artist Yusuff Abogunde is working on his latest project painting the walls of a studio he shares with other artists in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos.

The European Central Bank's first female president inherits an almost empty toolbox from her predecessor — at a time when persistently low inflation and weak growth are showing the limits of monetary policy.

British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare has launched a residency program in the West African country's commercial capital Lagos in the hope that it will help the continent to raise its profile in the global art scene.