Biography from Steptoe.com:

Considered one of the founders of modern Nigerian art, Bruce Onobrakpeya was born into the Urhobo people in 1932 in Delta State, in southern Nigeria. His father was an Urhobo carver. He was brought up as a Christian, but also learned Nigeria's traditional beliefs, myths and legends, elements which he later incorporated into his art.

His family moved to Benin City where he attended Western Boys' High School and was introduced to art. With a government scholarship, he studied art and education at the Nigerian College of Art, Science, and Technology*, Nigeria's first formal art school, located in Zaria, northern Nigeria, where he was trained in the Western tradition of representational art....