CLARIFICATION: The following story should have mentioned the Museum of African Diaspora's involvement as a co-presenter. For artists, fellow musicians, even people who had just learned who he was, he ...

Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the pioneer of Afrobeat, built an international legacy long before The Recording Academy acknowledged it ...

In the late 1960s, Fela decided that he had no use for love songs or party tunes; he wanted to challenge unjust authority. By Jon Pareles Resistance is etched into Afrobeat, the music forged by the ...

The life of legendary broadcaster and music critic Mr Benson Idonije (aka Ben J) revolves round the media and music. He is an encyclopaedia of contemporary Nigerian music reporting, dating back to the ...

Fans of Afro beat creator Fela Anikulapo-Kuti converged on the New Africa Shrine in Lagos penultimate week to celebrate the life and times of the late ‘nonconformist’. Entertainment Editor VICTOR ...

The truth is that during Fela’s extraordinary lifetime, the Nigerian’s notoriety as an engaged citizen fighting for social justice was what usually attracted attention – and not his music. His public ...

Fela’s brief but eventful life and musical legacy are well documented in books, documentary films and exhibitions; indeed, Afrobeat rébellion, an ongoing nine-month-long celebration of his legacy at ...

Fela Kuti was one of Africa's most controversial musicians and throughout his life he continued to fight for the rights of the common man (and woman) despite vilification, harassment, and even ...

Nigerian music star Burna Boy, born Damini Ogulu, has clarified the role of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti in shaping his career in a recent interview with tennis icon Roger Federer on Complex’s GOAT Talk.

This soundtrack to the musical about the late Nigerian political activist and inventor of Afrobeat is a powerful Fela primer. It includes some of Fela Kuti's best-known songs ("I.T.T.," "Zombie"), as ...

Alaba Ilesanmi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Babatunde Fagbayibo receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. International law in African universities is still taught within a rigid Eurocentric context. Changing this ...