Fred Ebami is illustrating modern Africa with his contemporary take on Pop Art

For the past decade, Fred Ebami has been blazing a trail for a style he calls “New Pop” — digital Pop Art through an African lens.

The Franco-Cameroonian artist, aged 45, creates hopeful images ranging from the everyday to the iconic — with particular emphasis on the African continent and global African diaspora. His portraits are a rich blend of iconography, symbolic patterns, slogans, and interpretations of classic Pop Art imagery.

His artworks, created principally on a computer, aim to bring Pop Art into the 21st century, and have been exhibited at…