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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Nigeria: She Was Like Fela, Says NLCOnyebuchi EzigboAbujaThe Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday joined the world to mourn the death of the foremost African music icon, Miriam Makeba.NLC in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Mr. John Odah, likened Makeba to Nigeria's own Fela Anikulapo Kuti who through their music crusaded for the liberation of the downtrodden...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Few musical styles have been so completely defined by their originator as Afrobeat has been by the Nigerian singer, songwriter, band leader, saxophonist, organist, club and record company operator, polemicist and agitator, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Since Kuti's death in 1997 it has seemed as though Afrobeat might have died with him, for nobody--including his son Femi and long-time...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
The anomalies that trailed repeated elections that returned Alhaji Idris Ibrahim as governor Kogi State have been unearthed, as pictures of the late Afro-Beat King Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai were discovered to be among pictures of voters in the March 29 governorship election re-run in Kogi state.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
Having a famous father is a burden not often borne well, and few famous fathers cast quite as long a shadow as Fela Kuti, a giant of African music.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... of a chill.So we lit a fire. We lathered stories, and talked about a great many things. And played Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. I had an out-of-body experience in that moment: Here I was, listening to these Americans sing Fela in perfect pidgin in a small university town in the middle of America.This would have been impossible to imagine in 1961, the year Barrack Obama was born...
