Acc. № 034 · Archive reference image
Music That Never Was № 034
Fela Anikulapo Kuti: The Black President
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Japanese music magazine cover depicting Fela Anikulapo Kuti as a messianic figure in an amphitheater, saxophone raised like a scepter, surrounded by silhouetted dancers and floating musical notes against a burning sun. The poster conflates Fela's revolutionary Afrobeat with Japanese visual mythology, presenting him as a spiritual rather than political leader. A artifact from an alternate 1978 where Fela's influence on global youth culture was rendered through manga-influenced portraiture and offered a different visual grammar for Black liberation iconography.
Catalogued, not yet released. This artifact will become available to acquire soon.
One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.
About the certificate →Print specification
2752 × 1536 px · 4.2 MP · landscape
- Section
- Music That Never Was
- Style
- manga concert poster, neon highlight typography, anime illustration
- Mood
- prophetic, transcendent, defiant
- Palette
- orange, tan, black, cream
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