National Theatre, Lagos

Name: National Theatre, Lagos
Brand: Raknida
Price: 250.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Anthony Ezeokoye

Black and yellow illustration of the National Theatre, Lagos, with its ribbed cap-shaped roof, a construction crane at left, a smiling yellow sun, a man walking and a white car in front.

$250.00 – $600.00

The National Theatre, Lagos, opened in 1975 ahead of FESTAC 77. Anth Ezeokoye draws it in black and yellow for his Made in Lagos series, with a crane still at work beside its famous roof.

National Theatre, Lagos is a Collector Edition: 10 museum-quality art prints in each size. Each is numbered in its white border, with a digital Certificate of Authenticity. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

What you receive

Every Collector Edition comes with its story and its certificate.

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Cultural
Passport

National Theatre, Lagos
by Anthony Ezeokoye
Yoruba · Ed. of 10
Coll. Ed.+ COA
Cultural Passport
Digital, emailed when your order ships: the work's story, the tradition it draws on and how it was made. 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm), ready to print and frame beside the work.
Digital Certificate of Authenticity
Issued digitally with your Collector Edition.

Lagosians say the National Theatre looks like a military cap, and from the expressway at Iganmu it does. It is a ribbed crown of concrete rising out of the mainland. It opened in September 1975, built to preserve and promote African arts ahead of FESTAC 77. That festival brought Black and African artists from around the world to Lagos.

Anth Ezeokoye drew it for Made in Lagos, his series that brings the city's landmarks to life in black and yellow. It blends vector illustration with a sketched finish. His aim is to preserve the scenes that have made Lagos what it is today, for anyone with a connection to the city. Look to the left edge: a construction crane stands beside the roof, and a grinning sun hangs over it all. The monument is drawn as a living place, still being worked on, still part of the day.

Motifs in this work

The ribbed roof: the cap-shaped outline Lagosians know at a glance

The crane: a landmark still being worked on and cared for

Black and yellow: the pop palette of the Made in Lagos series

Edition: Edition of 10 in each size · 30 across all sizes. Further runs possible once a size sells out, each tagged (Run 2). Edition numbers count the works sold through Raknida; the artist may also sell their own editions of this work.
Numbering: Number, title and artist printed in the white border.
Printing: Museum-quality giclée with archival pigment inks on museum-grade cotton fine art paper.
Includes: Your numbered artwork, its Cultural Passport and a digital Certificate of Authenticity.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
M	16 × 24 in	14 × 21 in	$250	+$119	10
L	24 × 36 in	22 × 33 in	$400	+$179	10
XL	32 × 48 in	30 × 45 in	$600	+$249	10

The artist

Anthony Ezeokoye

Igbo · Missouri, USA · Origin: Nigeria · 19 works on Raknida

Anthony “Anth” Ezeokoye (b. 1989) is an international award-winning digital artist, trained architect, creative director, and creative technologist. His practice sits where cultural storytelling meets emerging media. A Nigerian based in St. Louis, with professional roots across Africa’s creative industries, Anth builds visual worlds across illustration, motion, extended reality, and artificial intelligence. He treats technology not as a novelty but as a tool for authorship, access, and cultural continuity.

Across series, collections, and commissions, Anth’s work explores how heritage, identity, and narratives are constructed. He often uses contemporary African visual language to question what we inherit, how we perform, and who we choose to become.

In the A Queen & More collection, he explores the many dimensions of womanhood through 12 character archetypes in a bold, contemporary palette. Layered elements honor choice, complexity, and self-definition. In the Mask Off collection, he positions African heritage as both inheritance and future legacy. Illustration, 3D digital production, and looping animation ask what remains when performative “masks” fall away, and how cultural values can be re-authored today. His calligraphic portrait series, The Autograph, fuses typography, symbolism, and precise craftsmanship, constructing faces from names, dates, quotes, and lived histories.

Anth’s wider career extends into building creative infrastructure. He is the founder of Raknida, an art-tech platform that widens access to cultural stories by underrepresented artists. Its growing suite of products and experiences spans discovery, collection, and display. He has presented and directed creative projects across cultural, art, and design festivals and public-facing contexts. His creative direction runs through two businesses: Insecta Studios, a creative services company in Lagos, Nigeria, and Raknida Inc. in St. Louis. Recognition includes Arch Grants, SOVAS Voice Arts Awards, One Voice Awards USA, and a Future Awards Africa nomination in Arts and Culture.