Komi Olafimihan was born in 1985 in the city of Kaduna in Northern Nigeria.  He graduated from Adesoye College, Offa in Nigeria and immigrated to British Columbia, Canada in 2002 with his family and attended North Peace Secondary school, in Fort St. John. After spending a year in British Columbia he got admission to study Architecture at Carleton University in Ottawa and moved into the city in 2003 to continue his education.  At Carleton University School of Architecture he began honing and learning new artistic and architectural techniques of representation. Explorations with media such as graphite, Prisma color, charcoal, pastels and ink began to emerge in his studio projects. He deeply credits his drawing skills to Steve Fai an amazing professor at the university. In his final Semester of his undergraduate degree he enrolled in a course that would play a very significant role in his life for many years to come. It was a painting workshop under the critical supervision of the eccentric Tom Dubicanac. He learnt within a period of 3 months painting techniques and carried out various studies of the human form through life drawing exercises. Upon completion of the course he had developed an obsession with the visual art form of painting and decided to teach himself other painting techniques and to learn to use art as a tool for education and awareness. In 2007, the same time period of the painting workshop, Komi  Olaf began writing poetry. He was experiencing some very personal struggles and in the process picked up various bad habits.  As an outlet to the internal pressure he wrote the poem  `smoke` explaining some of these inner struggles , specifically about smoking and performed it to his sister . Jeti Olaf a.k.a Eloquent, Komi Olaf`s younger sister is a poet and event organizer in Ottawa.  She was putting together a showcase of poetry and music at Carleton University called `Conscious` and  Komi was invited to be an opening act. That was the beginning of a series of various showcases and a career as a spoken word poet.

Upon completion of his Undergraduate degree in Architecture, he decided to pursue a Masters Degree in architecture and enrolled for the program at Carleton University for an additional two years. As a thesis project he explored improvisation in Architecture. He was granted a travel grant by the university to return back to Nigeria after 7 years to carry out research on the topic. His thesis included a case study of various slums in Lagos Nigeria, specifically the Makoko fishing community, an urban slum located on the Lagos lagoon. Through his research he developed new building techniques and urban strategies taking into consideration the limited availability of resources. These techniques and strategies were designed as adaptable tools that could be modified to address various slums around the world. The thesis was nominated for the Canadian Architect student Award for excellence in 2009.

During the first year of his masters at Carleton he had his debut art exhibition at Gallery 101, in Ottawa called Fire Dance. The art exhibition was a collection comprised of 22 paintings focused on showcasing his interpretation of political and social issues, beauty and African history. The paintings told a story and sparked the imagination, inviting the viewer to take an introspective journey into the transcending world of emotions and rhythm passionately expressed on the canvas. His distinct use of vibrant colors reminiscent of many African traditions began to give him a voice within the art community of Ottawa.

Inspired by the success of his debut exhibition with media recognition and sales of his work to collectors in the United Kingdom, North America and Africa, Komi was inspired and worked on a collection of 15 paintings over the next twelve months. While refining and developing new personal techniques of painting and representation, he had his second Art exhibition at the National Arts Center appropriately titled `Angels of Music` a celebration of the lives of various Iconic Musicians through an artistic translation of portraiture. This was his attempt at combining the music and the musician, the tangible and the intangible into colors and brushstrokes. The exhibition was a success and was able raise Funds that were donated to la fondation des foyers Angele, an Organization that funds the Judea orphanage in Haiti. In 2009, he represented Ottawa along with 4 other members of the Ottawa capital Slam collective at the National Canadian Festival of Spoken word in Victoria, where they won the national slam poetry championships. Komi, along with the Ottawa slam team formed a poetry group called the Recipe and began touring all over Canada bringing spoken word poetry to the youth in high schools and opening for other spoken word poets and performers in other cities. The Recipe would be representing Canada at the world slam in Paris in June 2010.

For his contribution to community service and development in Ottawa he was awarded the empowerment and success award by the Students Federation of the University of Ottawa. Komi Hopes to continue to serve humanity in anyway God continues to guide him and believes that through his Art, Architecture and Poetry he can bring change to the world.