Nigeria, May 21 -- British-Ghanaian artist and curator Joseph Awuah-Darko has accused renowned American painter Kehinde Wiley of sexually assaulting him twice in 2021.

In an Instagram post shared Sunday, Awuah-Darko said it first occurred on June 9, 2021, at a dinner held at the Noldor Artist Residency in Ghana, where he was "inappropriately groped" by Wiley, in front of another guest.

According to Awuah-Darko, the second incident was "much more severe and violent," though he spared the details, claiming the assaults "almost destroyed me."

In a subsequent interview with the New York Times, he explained that "a sexual encounter began consensually, but that it then moved to a bedroom, where. Mr. Wiley forced himself on him after Mr. Awua...