BIOGRAPHY

Almighty God, the artist, does not claim to be God. Rather he gives thanks to Almighty God for his personal salvation. Asked about this, he says he is a preacher and a painter. Full stop. Almighty God, born Kwame Akoto, began his apprenticeship painting signboards and lorries, but then he found religion. He also found expatriate buyers for his paintings and diversified his thematic repertoire. He now runs a thriving art enterprise located in a large outdoor studio on a busy roundabout in Kumasi. His portraits and paintings are often didactic and moralistic, sometimes surrealistic and typically inscribed with titles and admonitions (e.g., “A man who dresses as a woman deserves the reprobation of God.”).