Musah Yussif

Born: 1997

Biography:

Musah Yussif is a Ghanaian artist born in 1997. He graduated with a BFA in Painting and Sculpture from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (2019). Musah Yussif believes in the potential of good in all of us and thinks sainthood could be achieved by humans regardless of our backgrounds. His series of drawings titled 'The Saints' breaks away from the western depiction of divinity with symbols like halos. He mainly uses charcoal, pastel, and metallic paint for his works.