S. Bakare graduated from Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. The artist calls his paintings "time machines" that transport the viewer to an imagined present-day Africa where the continent is untouched by the damage of colonization and the slave trade. The penetrating gaze of the artist rewriting history notices and suggests changes that could have occurred if history had taken a different turn. The painter's perspective allows the viewer to rethink the past of the African continent and its people and imagine a different future where black people can control their continent. S. Bakare's work was presented at the 2019 exhibition "Counter History Alliance Francaise Lagos" and the 2020 exhibition "Occupied Space" in Accra, as well as at the 2019 exhibition "Counter History" in Paris.
