We decided to narrow the scope of Idris’ vintage-themed website and build a repository for album covers and stories about them. The stories in question are the essays that our three writer friends are working on. This prompted us to change the project's name to “Album Cover Bank”. We think…

Damn, it’s been a while since I wrote a wuruwuru post. I’ll start from the bad news: we still don’t have the radio song for Hanky Panky. It’s been one month since we sent the first email. The contract is signed but we’re waiting for the invoice and file. Good…

It’s been two years since I started wuruwuru. Reflecting on my first post, here’s what has changed since then. Day 1 of Wuruwuru and I spent all day writing and setting up tools. First, the name is now lowercase “wuruwuru” 💅🏽. Counter-cultural movements like the bauhaus chose to use lowercase…

The first version of the wuruwuru website was a one-pager with a checkered background. Most of the links opened external sites, and the most exciting thing about it was a moving cursor. We knew the website didn’t tell a good enough story of what we set out to achieve, and…

I’m (now) confident we’ll finish wuruwuru S1 by the end of the year. We’re working with about 36 creators on six projects. So far only one is done, but refer to the first paragraph. The studio started in October 2020 with two interns. Eseosa (who now works as a Product…

We put out a tweet on July 26th announcing an album cover contest. We asked designers, artists, writers and developers to submit a pitch to make Cover Bank more accessible. Exactly four people sent in an application. Immaculata Abba Immaculata wants to create an engaging and accessible 2000-word essay…

We’re hosting a contest to promote our Album Cover database. We want to give four people with the most intriguing ideas $500 each to do something interesting with the database. The Album Cover database is an archive of 5000+ Nigerian album covers from 1950–2022. We want as many creative…

wuruwuru means crooked. The project started out as an attempt to make a magazine, but then veered into an Instagram comic, an animated short film, and now a handful of experimental visual stories. The big idea is to create a support system for independent creators to be able to experiment…

One of the most crucial elements of Hanky Panky is the soundtrack. If we get it right, we get the audience to experience Lagos in a very genuine way. …