Even Keke Talks: A stylistic and thematic analysis of Keke inscriptions as mobile Urban art

Across societies, visual artists and non-visual artists have used their works of art to express their beliefs towards issues bothering on their socio-cultural lives, most often individual lifestyles. Some of these are displayed through diverse visual forms. One of the surfaces where artistic inscriptions are in Nigeria today is on the bodies and windscreens of commercial tricycles popularly known as Keke. Much has been discussed about the inscriptions on the bodies and windscreens of commercial tricycles in Nigeria. A good number of the discussions bother more on the sociolinguistic interpretation of the inscriptions, but with little about the themes and artistic styles employed in the production of inscriptions. However, the data of inscription will be collected using photography and analyzed its thematic and stylization.