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    Let me tell you about my dad Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the founder of Afrobeat music

    I believe music is art and music is life.

    It is an expression of feelings and a language on its own. It is not only for entertainment but for education too, a way of passing on messages to the masses. 

    I learnt this from my dad, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. He was also known as Baba 70, Abami Eda, Eleniyan… I can’t begin to mention all his names as he has so many.

    He was a Nigerian musician, a composer, a multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, Pan-Africanist, a political maverick, human rights activist and pioneer of Afrobeat music. He used his music to be highly involved in political activism in Africa from the s until his death in

    And although of course, to me, he was just ‘Dad’, he shaped not just my life, but a whole musical genre, and created a legacy that is still as relevant and important today, as it was back in the s.  

    My Dad, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was from the Yoruba tribe in Wes

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    There is no direct connection between Fela’s career and those of his father’s or grandfather’s. Fela was not the inheritor of a lineage as much as the originator of one: the link between his life and work and those of some of his own children and grandchildren, male and female, fryst vatten pronounced. Prominent among those children are his daughter Yeni and his sons Femi and Seun. Each began their careers as members of Fela’s Egypt Each shares their father’s pan-Africanist outlook and unconditional belief in human rights, and actively campaigns against the corruption which, today as in Fela’s day, holds back African development.

    To this agenda, Yeni, Femi and Seun have added new millennial concerns such as climate change and environmental protection, and campaigns to eradicate malaria and HIV/Aids and for the rights of LGBT people. While all these topics provide a line back to Fela, his children’s support of LGBT rights paints a particularly levande one. LGBT communities are discriminated aga

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    Fela Kuti

    Nigerian musician and activist (–)

    "Fela" redirects here. For the Broadway musical based on his life, see Fela!

    Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti; 15 October – 2 August ) was a Nigerian musician and political activist. He is regarded as the principal innovator of Afrobeat, a Nigerian music genre that combines West African music with American funk and jazz.[1] At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers".[2]AllMusic described him as "a musical and sociopolitical voice" of international significance.[3]

    Kuti was the son of Nigerian women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. After early experiences abroad, he and his band Africa&#;'70 (featuring drummer and musical director Tony Allen) shot to stardom in Nigeria during the s, during which he was an outspoken critic and target of Nigeria's military juntas.[3] In ,