Category: The Press
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LEMI GHARIOKWU & FELA’S ENTREPRENEURSHIP LESSON – EINSTEINETTE
I met Lemi Ghariokwu during an interview, organized by Nubia Africa at Kalakuta Republic. I’d put the interview after the post. It was amazing. I had heard of all the things Lemi had done and I expected to see a different man, anything else but the man I saw. He was humble, playful and above all,…
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#INDLU WITH LEMI GHARIOKWU – Nubia Africa
Lemi Ghariokwu is one of the proponents of the Pan-African course. A soldier of the art and the man behind the Art covers of the Afrobeat Legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Lemi has also done cover art for various iconic musicians all over the world like Micheal Jackson, Bob Marley, Mariah Carey, Lucky Dube, Tuface Idibia,…
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A DYNASTY OF ALBUM COVER ART – GRANTA
As a youngster and aspiring artist in the early 1970s, I learnt a lot from attending art exhibitions and visiting private studios and galleries in Lagos. It was a ritual for me to flip through newspapers eagerly to check out the cartoon page where the artists reign supreme with their take on socio-political issues in…
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AN ARTIST’S CHRONICLES OF CONSCIOUSNESS – Thisday Live
August 2 is remembered annually as the day the great Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, died. His ideological influence in world music and visual art was at the core of a two-hour chat with renowned artist, Lemi Ghariokwu. Yinka Olatunbosun reports
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REVOLUTION VS. EVOLUTION
I found this post based on one of the interviews I once had and it totally reflects my idea of revolution and evolution. It also goes a long way to tell my story of evolution in the art world and in the world generally:
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MY NAME IS LEMI GHARIOKWU
You know me now as Lemi Ghariokwu but it wasn’t always my name. When I was born my parents looked at me and with the utmost joy named me ‘Emmanuel’ meaning ‘God with Us’. I grew up identifying that name as mine. Every time I heard ‘Emmanuel’ or ‘Emmanuel Sunday’ my neck turned in that…