Screening of Finding Fela followed by Q&A with Lemi

Stani Goma will be presenting the screening of “Finding Fela”. A music documentary looking at Fela Kuti, a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick.

There will also be Q&A chaired by Stani Goma with Lemi Ghariokwu.

Ghariokwu Lemi, is a self taught Nigerian Visual Artist, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Songwriter. He is most renowned for many of his original cover art for Nigerian music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. His work involves a variety of styles, often using vibrant colours and individuated typefaces of his own design. This serves a consciously integrated meta-textual function. One would say his art is rebellion, comical, political, even erotic but most of all he is a genius in pictorial narration. Observer Music Magazine (Guardian, UK) called him “King of Covers” in 2004.