Lemi Ghariokwu, a veteran artist, who designed some of the late music legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s album covers, says Fela’s music are more
Ghariokwu told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that people were more in tune with Fela’s music now because of its philosophical nature and how they relate to happenings in the country presently.
“My call to fame was because I designed Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s musical album covers which showed that Afrobeat music, its own art are packaged with it,’’ he said. “Babatunde Harrison, a journalist that was with Sunday Punch Newspaper then saw the Bruce Lee portrait and was impressed, his journalist instinct set in.
Ghariokwu said that Babatunde came and he rushed to him and showed him what he had done and he promised go to Fela the next day. “He told them to bring his cheque book and he wrote N120, four times more than I charge people. He did not ask me how much I do charge, it shows he valued that work,’’ he said.
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