On April 4, 2012, Jay was the first Ghanaian artist to be featured on BET's 106 & Park show.

This was the first work by a Ghanaian artist to be put on CD.

Nii Amon Kotei was a Ghanaian artist (sculpture, painter and musician) and surveyor.

"Gone are the days of Africans wearing raffia skirts," said Andy Akman, the Ghanaian artist who draws the imaginary superhero.

And a sculpture by El Anatsui, a Ghanaian artist, is to hang in the lobby.

For 10 years, a new generation of Ghanaian artists focused on this genre, with never a thought that their images would be seen by a larger audience, let alone a global one.

Ghanaian artists such as R&B and soul singer Rhian Benson and highlife singer Kojo Antwi and Amakye Dede have had international success.

Rikki Wemega-Kwawu is a contemporary Ghanaian artist, born on February 3, 1959 in the city of Sekondi, Ghana.

His work is considered to be illustrative of 3rd generation Ghanaian artists, who freely express themselves as artists in a modern world, without succumbing to restrictive notions of African art.

Godfried Donkor (born 1964) is a Ghanaian artist, living and working in London.