Adjani Okpu-Egbe (Kumba, 1979. Lives in London) holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art, where he is also a guest lecturer. He believes that artists have an inherent social contract to dedicate aspects of their work to shedding light on issues that affect their communities. Thus, social commentary and references to African American, African, and broader African diasporic histories, philosophies, iconographies, anthropologies, sociologies, music, mythologies, and everyday life are recurrent in his practice. The first recipient of the Ritzau Art Prize, he has exhibited at Tate Modern (London), Savvy Contemporary (Berlin), Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Braunschweig, International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York), and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.