Singer Seun Kuti has opened up on what his late father and Afrobeat singer Fela Kuti did to one of his teachers when he was young He said that his dad did not support the beating of children and ...

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Denise Trucello Today, the Recording Academy carries on its tradition of enshrining the most impactful and enduring ...

particularly in the figure of Kuti’s passionate, controversial father, Fela Kuti. Femi himself started out in the early 1980s as a member of his late father’s band Egypt 80 and has stuck ...

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But life with Fela was anything but quiet,” Yeni reflected. Femi Kuti, the couple’s first son, added that the book sheds light on Fela’s relentless pursuit of justice and his revolutionary ...

In an ambitious effort to chart the lineage of Yoruba and Afrobeats music over the past century and its global influence, Nigerian superstar Adekunle Gold has co-produced a forthcoming documentary ...

depicting a journey to the promised land set to Duke Ellington’s classic “Come Sunday,” Peven Everett’s hit “Gabriel,” and the pulse of Fela Kuti’s Afro-Pop. Stories by Paris Wolfe I ...