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Lemi Gharioukwu (19-) is a Nigerian artist and designer who is most renowned for providing many of the original cover images for the recordings of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti.

His work involves a variety of styles, often using vibrant colours and individuated typefaces of his own design. More than 2,000 album covers have been designed by Lemi, including covers for Bob Marley, E.T. Mensah, Osita Osadebe, Gilles Peterson and Antibalas.

Many of Gharioukwu's cover images echo and sometimes comment on the work and politics of the recordings that they accompany, serving a consciously integrated metatextual function. Gharioukwu's approach to his work with Kuti involved listening to and digesting the music and then expressing his reaction in his paintings, design and comments which provide a high level of detail on the many album covers he delivered.

Gharioukwu's relationship with Kuti, could on occasion, be fractious and not all of his covers were approved by his patron. Gharioukwu's work has attracted much attention in the west and is the subject of various restrospective exhibitions.