Oshodi, Lagos

Name: Oshodi, Lagos
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Anthony Ezeokoye

Black and yellow illustration of Oshodi, Lagos: an old Mercedes bus seen from the front, a cable footbridge over the road, a crowd, a man in a striped football shirt and the sun.

$55.00 – $125.00

Oshodi, the busiest crossroads in Lagos, with an old molue bus pulling in at the front. It is a nostalgic scene from Anth Ezeokoye's black-and-yellow Made in Lagos series.

Oshodi, Lagos is a Studio Edition: 20 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

The Cultural Passport

Every order comes with the heritage documented.

Digital, emailed when your order ships: the work's story, the tradition it draws on and how it was made. 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm), ready to print and frame beside the work.

How it works →

Anyone who passed through old Oshodi remembers the noise first: traders, horns, conductors calling out destinations, a market that spilled onto the expressway. Anth Ezeokoye puts the old Mercedes bus, the molue, right at the front of his picture, nose toward us. It looks as if it is about to pull in and pick you up.

Behind it a footbridge on cables crosses the road, crowded with people, and a man in a striped football shirt strides through the foreground. Made in Lagos, Anth's black-and-yellow series, is meant to stir nostalgia in anyone with a connection to the city. This may be its most nostalgic scene. Black and yellow were also the colours of the city's buses. The molue has mostly gone from the roads now, but for a generation it was Lagos in motion, and here it is still running.

Motifs in this work

The molue: the old Mercedes bus that carried Lagos for decades

The cable footbridge: the crowd crossing above the expressway

The striped football shirt: everyday Lagos walking through the frame

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 60 across all sizes. Further runs possible once a size sells out, each tagged (Run 2). Edition numbers count the works sold through Raknida; the artist may also sell their own editions of this work.
Numbering: Number, title and artist printed in the white border.
Printing: Museum-quality giclée with archival pigment inks on museum-grade cotton fine art paper.
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	8 × 12 in	6½ × 9¾ in	$55	+$65	20
M	16 × 24 in	14 × 21 in	$85	+$119	20
L	24 × 36 in	22 × 33 in	$125	+$179	20

The artist

Anthony Ezeokoye

Igbo · Missouri, USA · Origin: Nigeria · 19 works on Raknida

Anthony “Anth” Ezeokoye (b. 1989) is an international award-winning digital artist, trained architect, creative director, and creative technologist. His practice sits where cultural storytelling meets emerging media. A Nigerian based in St. Louis, with professional roots across Africa’s creative industries, Anth builds visual worlds across illustration, motion, extended reality, and artificial intelligence. He treats technology not as a novelty but as a tool for authorship, access, and cultural continuity.

Across series, collections, and commissions, Anth’s work explores how heritage, identity, and narratives are constructed. He often uses contemporary African visual language to question what we inherit, how we perform, and who we choose to become.

In the A Queen & More collection, he explores the many dimensions of womanhood through 12 character archetypes in a bold, contemporary palette. Layered elements honor choice, complexity, and self-definition. In the Mask Off collection, he positions African heritage as both inheritance and future legacy. Illustration, 3D digital production, and looping animation ask what remains when performative “masks” fall away, and how cultural values can be re-authored today. His calligraphic portrait series, The Autograph, fuses typography, symbolism, and precise craftsmanship, constructing faces from names, dates, quotes, and lived histories.

Anth’s wider career extends into building creative infrastructure. He is the founder of Raknida, an art-tech platform that widens access to cultural stories by underrepresented artists. Its growing suite of products and experiences spans discovery, collection, and display. He has presented and directed creative projects across cultural, art, and design festivals and public-facing contexts. His creative direction runs through two businesses: Insecta Studios, a creative services company in Lagos, Nigeria, and Raknida Inc. in St. Louis. Recognition includes Arch Grants, SOVAS Voice Arts Awards, One Voice Awards USA, and a Future Awards Africa nomination in Arts and Culture.