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An NFT artwork by Ryoji Ikeda titled
A Single Number That Has 10,000,086 Digits Photo: AFP
A woman looks at an NFT artwork by Mad Dog Jones titled
SHIFT/ on June 10 in New York. Photo: AFP
At only 29, Nigerian pop artist Osinachi has sold paintings on Microsoft Word for several thousand dollars, or the equivalent amount in ether, a cryptocurrency often used to buy digital art.
One of his works, Becoming Sochukwuma, shows a black dancer wrapped in a tutu made of African fabric, dreadlocks tied in a bun, swirling on a computer screen.
But what makes the painting truly unique is its endorsement with an NFT (Non-Fungible Token) - a set of data stored in a blockchain that is used as a digital certificate of ownership.
Nigerian artists and entrepreneurs bank on crypto-art
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