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• Beko Ransome-Kuti
  Dr. Bekolari Ransome-Kuti (2 August 1940 – 10 February 2006)
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  Bill T. Jones
  Bill T. Jones (born February 15, 1952) is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer.
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  Biyi Bandele
  Biyi Bandele-Thomas (born 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and playwright generally known as Biyi Bandele. Bandele is one of the most versatile and prolific of the U.K.-based Nigerian writers, having turned his hand to theater, journalism, television, film, and radio, as well as the fiction with which he made his name. Acclaimed as both a prolific playwright and a versatile novelist, his 1997 adaptation of fellow Nigerian, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart for the British stage, confirmed his place as an important voice on the post-colonial stage. He currently resides in the London.
  http://wn.com/Biyi_Bandele
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  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music for six decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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  Bob Marley
  Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited with helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.
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  Bono
  Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono ( ), is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
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• Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican American rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion. The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. Rolling Stone named Santana number 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time in 2003. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards.
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• Che Guevara
  Ernesto "Che" Guevara (; June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution. Since his death, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol and global insignia within popular culture.
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• Femi Kuti
  Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June 1962) popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the oldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.
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• J.Period
  J.Period (born 12 February 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is a Brooklyn-based Mixtape DJ, remixer and hip-hop producer. He is best known for producing Official Mixtape collaborations with Nas, Big Daddy Kane, Lauryn Hill, The Roots, The Isley Brothers and Mary J. Blige, and an "audio-biography" style that incorporates personal interviews with these artists into his “Best of” compilations.
  http://wn.com/JPeriod
• K'naan
  '''K'naan (), born Keinan Abdi Warsame' (, Kin‘ān ‘Abdī Warsamah'') in 1978, is a Somali-Canadian poet, rapper, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist.
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• Lillias White
  Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an American singer and actress.
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  Margaret Thatcher
  Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (née Roberts; born 13 October 1925) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. Thatcher is the only woman to have held either post.
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• Moshood Abiola
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• Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
  Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a paediatrician, activist, was the brother of the musician Fela Kuti and former health minister in his native Nigeria.
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  Olusegun Obasanjo
  ''', GCFR (pronounced in Yoruba, in English; born circa 5 March 1937) is a former Nigerian Army general and former President of Nigeria. A Nigerian of Yoruba descent, Obasanjo was a career soldier before serving twice as his nation's head of state, once as a military ruler, between 13 February 1976 to 1 October 1979 and again from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007, as elected President. His current home is Abeokuta, the Capital City of Ogun State, where he reigns as a tribal nobleman, holding the titles of the Balogun of the Owu Lineage and the Ekerin Balogun of the Egba clan of Yorubaland.
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  Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).
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• Sani Abacha
  General Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 in Kano – 8 June 1998 in Abuja) was a Nigerian military leader and politician. He was the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998. He is noted for being a monumental kleptocrat and a notorious dictator whose regime executed political opponents, notably Ken Saro-Wiwa. The Abacha family is regarded as organised crime by the Swiss authorities.
  http://wn.com/Sani_Abacha
• Seun Kuti
  Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 1982), commonly known as Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician, and the youngest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun leads his father's former band Egypt 80.
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• slave name
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• Victor Olaiya
  Victor Abimbola Olaiya, or 'Dr Victor Olaiya', is a Nigerian trumpeter who plays in the Highlife style. He was possibly the biggest star in Nigeria in the 1950s and early 1960s, but received little recognition outside of Nigeria. Alhaji Alade Odunewu of the Daily Times admiringly styled him "The Evil Genius of Highlife."
  http://wn.com/Victor_Olaiya
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  Will Smith
  Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, film producer and rapper. He has enjoyed success in music, television and film. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor on the planet. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.
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  Wole Soyinka
  Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African to be so honoured. In 1994, he was designated United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture, human rights, freedom of expression, media and communication.
  http://wn.com/Wole_Soyinka

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  Abeokuta
  Abeokuta is the largest city and capital of Ogun State in southwest Nigeria and is situated at , on the Ogun River; 64 miles north of Lagos by railway, or 81 miles by water. As of 2005, Abeokuta and the surrounding area had a population of 593,140.
  http://wn.com/Abeokuta
• Accra
  Accra ( or ) is the capital and largest city in Ghana with the population of the city proper estimated at 1,963,264 as of 2009. Accra also doubles as the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra Metropolitan District with which it is coterminous. Accra is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area and includes eight districts - Accra Metropolitan, Tema Metropolitan, Ga East Municipal, Ga West Municipal, Ga South Municipal, Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal, Ashaiman Municipal and Adenta Municipal. It is home to about 4 million people, making it the largest metropolitan conglomeration in the country by population. As a primate city, Accra is the administrative, communications, and economic centre of the country.
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  Dodan Barracks
  Dodan Barracks is a military barracks occupying a large area located off Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria. Dodan Barracks was the residence of the heads of state of various Military Governments in Nigeria, and also the Supreme Military Headquarters from 1966 until the move to Abuja in 1991.
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  Ghana
  The Republic of Ghana is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The word Ghana means "Warrior King" and is derived from the ancient
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  New Jersey
  New Jersey (, ) is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the northeast by New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey lies largely within the sprawling metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. It is the most densely populated state in the United States.
  http://wn.com/New_Jersey
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  Nigeria
  Nigeria (), officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. In terms of religion Nigeria is roughly split half and half between Muslims and Christians with a very small minority who practice traditional religion.
  http://wn.com/Nigeria
• Ogun State
  Ogun State is a state in South-western Nigeria. It borders Lagos State to the South, Oyo and Osun states to the North, Ondo State to the east and the republic of Benin to the west. Abeokuta is the capital and largest city in the state. Ogun has one federal university; the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta , two state government universities; the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye (formerly known as Ogun State University) and the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) Ijebu Ode. Ogun State thus has the highest number of registered universities in Nigeria (nine in all). Five of the nine universities are private, which include Babcock University - Ilisan-Remo, the first private university in the country. The state has two major government hospitals, the Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta and the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu.
  http://wn.com/Ogun_State
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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• Lady
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• Gentleman (Edit Version)
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• Zombie
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• No Agreement, Pt. 2

• Opposite People
• Equalisation of Trouser and Pant
• Sorrow Tears and Blood
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• My Lady Frustration
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• Alu jon jonki jon
• Alagbon Close
• Everything Scatter
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• J.J.D.
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• Underground System
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• Just Like That

• Original Suffer Head
• Power Show
• I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)

• Zombie
• Chop and Quench
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• Up Side Down
• Africa - Centre of the World

• Original Suffer Head
• Sorrow Tears and Blood
• Colonial Mentality
• I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)

• Zombie
• Shuffering and Shmiling
• No Agreement
• Shakara
• Black's Man Cry
• Lady

• Sorrow, Tears and Blood
• Colonial Mentality
• I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)

• Shuffering and Shmiling, Part 1
• Shuffering and Shmiling, Part 2

• No Agreement
• Dog Eat Dog

• Up Side Down
• Go Slow

• Open & Close
• Suegbe & Pako
• Gbagada Gbogodo

• My Lady's Frustration
• Viva Nigeria
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• This Is Sad

• Perambulator
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• Power Show

• Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (1)
• Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (2)
• Look and Laugh (1)
• Look and Laugh (2)

• Why Black Man Dey Suffer
• Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality

• Go Slow
• Roforofo Fight
• Suffering & Smiling

• Equalisation of Pants and Trousers
• Yellow Fever
• Water No Got Enemy
• Kalukuta Show (intro)
• Kalukuta Show
• Lady
• Zombie
• No Agreement
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• Palm Wine Sound
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• Shakara (Oloje)
• Chop and Quench
• Let's Start
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• Lady
• Alu Jon Jonki Jon
• Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want to Die)

• Mr. Follow Follow
• Who No Know Go Know

• Gentleman
• Fafe Naa Efe
• Igobe (Na Shit)
• Everything Scatter
• Who No Know Go Know

• Ikoyi Blindness
• Gba Mi Leti Ki N'dolowo
• No Buredi (No Bread)
• Unnecessary Begging

• V.I.P. (Part 1&2)
• Authority Stealing (Part 1&2)

• Alujon Jonki Jon
• Chop'n Quench
• Eko Ile
• Je'nwi Temi

• Don't Gag Me
• Gentleman
• Fefe Ka Efe
• Shuffering and Shmiling

• Lady
• Shakara
• J'Ehin J'Ehin
• Egbe Mi O
• Who're You
• Buy Africa
• Fight to Finish

• Jayen Jayen
• Egbe Mio
• Who Are You
• Buy America
• Fight To The Finish

• Jayen Jayen
• Egbe Mio
• Who Are You
• Buy Africa
• Fight to the Finish
• Trouble Sleep - Yenga Wake Am

• Beasts of No Nation
• Just Like That

• Cross Examination
• Government Chicken Boy
• Army Arrangement

• 2000 Blacks Got to be Free
• Africa-Centre of the World

Born: 1938-10-15

Died: 1997-08-02

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