Rikki Wemega-Kwawu is a contemporary Ghanaian artist born in 1959. He has been painting since 1981, although he is an alumnus of the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, he is a largely self-taught visual artist. His work is characterized by a synthesis of the past and the present, incorporating a plethora of ancient African symbols into his large-scale paintings.