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Seventy years of Nigerian album covers – in pictures

Opemipo Aikomo is a self-taught digital designer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He started out making posters at university and it was an early attempt to create a magazine that sparked his interest in Nigerian albums. “I struggled to piece together a story about the history of Afrobeats, but in the process I got interested in the designers creating cover art for what is now a big cultural export,” he says. Working with the makers’ collective Wuruwuru, Aikomo created Album Cover Bank, a digital archive of album artwork reaching back to the 1950s. Aikomo personally loves the recent output – such as artist Funto Coker’s design for Roots – but Cover Bank is about much more than art, he says. “Every album cover is a story, and this is an archive of thousands of stories waiting to be told.”

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Topic: [The Guardian] Seventy years of Nigerian album covers – in pictures (Read 1219 times)

[The Guardian] Seventy years of Nigerian album covers – in pictures

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