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Album Review | Emeka Ogboh’s sounds of Lagos

Album Review | Emeka Ogboh’s sounds of Lagos

LLOYD GEDYE THE artist has released a debut album after more than a decade of sound installations, incorporating his recordings from the streets of the Nigerian city into his new work. At the end of last year, 200 missing posters were dotted around the German city of Dresden. However, they weren’t for a missing person but for the Benin Bronzes.  The city’s Museum für Völkerkunde holds five pieces from the former royal palace of Benin, which British soldiers looted in 1897, and the missing posters were the work of Nigerian sound and visual artist Emeka Ogboh. In an interview with the ArtNet…
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