Artist wows a president
Kareem Waris Olamilekan, an 11-year-old artist from Nigeria, produces drawings in a style known as hyperrealism – hand-drawn works of art that go beyond the quality and detail of a photograph. He told the BBC he is inspired by an award-winning Nigerian artist called Arinze Stanley Egbengwu, who draws in the same style. Olamilekan began drawing at school at the age of six. The boy’s skills recently caught the eye of France’s president, Emmanuel Macron. The French leader was visiting the Nigerian city of Lagos on 3 July, and Olamilekan was able to complete a portrait of Macron in just two hours. Macron brought Olamilekan on stage at an event and later tweeted that he was, “very touched”.