Lemi Ghariokwu lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. The celebrated artist, illustrator and graphic designer, coined “the King of Covers” (The Observer Music Monthly, 2004), is internationally renowned as the mastermind behind 26 record jacket artworks for Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Two decades following the musician’s passing, this retrospective looked at the unique interplay of aesthetics and the Nigerian socio-political climate of the 1970s in Ghariokwu’s art featuring a selection of the notorious albums, in tandem with rarely and never-before-exhibited archival documents, sketches, and photographs from the artist’s private collection.
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