Brazil-based Nigerian Carnival Artist , painter and Illustrator, Adeyinka Olaiya, is a frontline Yoruba artist and writer with captivating exceptionalities in the Yoruba arts and philosophy . Trained at the Ife Art School, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife , in Nigeria , Adeyinka Olaiya has been a documentarist , curator and writer of the Yoruba arts and Ifa divinity . An artist of conviction whose genre falls within abstract expressionism. Olaiya explores the Yoruba philosophical and historical objects as reliefs in his paintings . He is a research fellow at the African cultural center and institute , Saopaulo, Brazil.