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Jibola Fagbamiye

Jibola Fagbamiye is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary visual artist, illustrator, and storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of African history, political resistance, and North American pop culture. Working across mixed media, digital illustration, and graphic design, he blends the visual language of propaganda posters, pop art, and comics to interrogate power, identity, consumerism, and cultural mythology. In 2025, Jibola co-created FELA: Music Is the Weapon (HarperCollins/Amistad), an acclaimed graphic-novel biography of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti, written with Conor McCreery. The book reimagines Fela’s life through magical realism, Afro-futurist symbolism, and political storytelling, positioning art itself as an act of resistance. Previously, Jibola collaborated with cultural critic Miles Marshall Lewis on Promise That You Will Sing About Me (a biography of Kendrick Lamar), and illustrated Michael Harriot’s New York Times bestseller Black AF: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America. His work has been exhibited in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Lagos, and featured by outlets including the Toronto Star, CBC, Toronto Life, and many more. Jibola’s practice spans fine art, publishing, and large-scale public commissions, with work exhibited at Union Station and distributed to hundreds of schools across Ontario. He lives in Toronto with his wife and son.