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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.
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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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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Abdias do Nascimento
Abdias do Nascimento (b. March 14, 1914, in Franca, Sao Paulo state) is a prominent Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician.
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Ahmed Sékou Touré
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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.
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Bob Dylan
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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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Burning Spear
Winston Rodney, OD (born March 1, 1948), also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican and a living legend roots reggae singer and musician. Like many famous Jamaican reggae artists, Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.
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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
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David Comissiong
David Comissiong is a Barbadian-born political activist, founder of the Clement Payne Movement, and once served as head of the government's Commission for Pan-African affairs. He is a frequent critic of globalization and United States hegemony. He is one of the key Pan-Africanists in Caribbean politics. Comissiong is an attorney by profession. He is married with two daughters.
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Edward Wilmot Blyden
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Fela Kuti
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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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Frantz Fanon
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
:''This is an Arabic patronymic name; the family name is Abdel Nasser, taken from his father's given name.''
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George Padmore
George Padmore (June 28, 1903–September 23, 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidadian who became a leading Pan-Africanist.
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J.Period
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John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke (January 1, 1915 - July 16, 1998), born John Henry Clark, was a Pan-Africanist American writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
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John Nyathi Pokela
John Nyathi "Poks" Pokela (1922 or 1923–June 30, 1985) was a South African political activist and Chairman of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Born in Herschel in the Transkei region, he was educated at Healdtown Comprehensive School and the University of Fort Hare. Originally a member of the African National Congress Youth League, he left the African National Congress and helped found the PAC in the late 1950s.
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Julius Nyerere
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (13 April 1922 - 14 October 1999) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the first President of Tanzania and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1961 until his retirement in 1985.
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K'naan
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Kenneth Kaunda
Kenneth David Kaunda, affectionately known as KK (born April 28, 1924) served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991.
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Kwame Nkrumah
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 - 27 April 1972) was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism. He was the first President of Ghana, the first Prime Minister of Ghana and a founding member of the Organization of African Unity. Kwame Nkrumah was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966, and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.
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Leonard Jeffries
Leonard Jeffries Jr. (born 1937) is an American professor of Black Studies at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York. He achieved national prominence in the early 1990s for his controversial statements about Jews and other white people. In a 1991 speech he claimed that Jews financed the slave trade, used the movie industry to hurt black people, and that Whites are "ice people" while Africans are "sun people". Jeffries was discharged from his position as chairman of the Black Studies Department at CUNY, leading to a lengthy legal battle.
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Lillias White
Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an American singer and actress.
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X (; May 19, 1925 February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (), was an African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. His detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been described as one of the greatest, and most influential, African Americans in history. In 1998, Time named The Autobiography of Malcolm X one of the ten most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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Margaret Thatcher
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Maulana Karenga
Maulana Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett on July 14, 1941, and also known as Ron Karenga and as M. Ron Karenga) is an African American author, political activist, and college professor best known as the creator of Kwanzaa. Karenga was active in the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s and founded the black nationalist group Us Organization which remains active to this day promoting the philosophy of Kawaida. Kawaida is a philosophy based on social and cultural change.
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Moshood Abiola
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Motsoko Pheko
Motsoko Pheko is a South African lawyer, author, historian, theologian, academic, and politician.
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Muammar Gaddafi
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Nnamdi Azikiwe
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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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Omali Yeshitela
Omali Yeshitela (born Joseph Waller, October 9, 1941, St. Petersburg, Florida) the founder of the Uhuru Movement based in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Patrice Lumumba
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Paul Robeson
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert singer and film actor, who became noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism. A forerunner of the civil rights movement, Robeson was also an All-American athlete, lawyer, writer, trade unionist, peace activist, Phi Beta Kappa Society laureate, and a recipient of the Spingarn Medal and Stalin Peace Prize. Robeson achieved international notoriety for both his artistic accomplishments and his outspoken radical beliefs, which largely clashed with the Jim Crow climate of the pre-civil rights United States. As a result, he became a prime target of the political right during the McCarthyist era. Despite being one of the most internationally famous cultural figures of the 20th century, persecution by the US government and media virtually erased Robeson from mainstream US culture and subsequent interpretations of US history; including civil rights and black history.
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Ronald Reagan
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Runoko Rashidi
Runoko Rashidi is a historian, researcher, writer, world traveler, and public lecturer based in Los Angeles. He focuses on the African presence globally and what he claims to be the African foundations of world civilizations. He is particularly drawn to the African presence in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, and has coordinated historic educational group tours to India, Aboriginal Australia, the Fiji Islands and Southeast Asia as well as Egypt and Brazil. His academic focus is in "the Black foundations of world civilizations". Many of these claims are incorrect, however, as evidenced by various anthropologic studies.The Races of Europe. Greenwood:USA, 1972 ISBN 0837163285 p.2
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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.
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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
A slave name is a name given to a person who is or has been enslaved or a name inherited from enslaved ancestors. Modern use of the term applies mostly to African-Americans and West Indians who are descended from slaves, and can be used in a derogatory manner.
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Steve Biko
Stephen Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. A student leader, he later founded the Black Consciousness Movement which would empower and mobilize much of the urban black population. Since his death in police custody, he has been called a martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. While living, his writings and activism attempted to empower black people, and he was famous for his slogan "black is beautiful", which he described as meaning: "man, you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being". Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.
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Stokely Carmichael
Kwame Ture (June 29, 1941 November 15, 1998), also known as Stokely Carmichael, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "snick") and later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. Initially an integrationist, Carmichael later became affiliated with black nationalist and Pan-Africanist movements. He popularized the term "Black Power".
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Thabo Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
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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."
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W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor.
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Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney (March 23, 1942 – June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political activist, who was assassinated in Guyana in 1980.
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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.
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- Colonial Mentality
- Zombie
- Unknown Soldier, Part 2
- Coffin for Head of State, Part 2
- Africa Centre of the World
- Highlife Time
- Omuti Tide
- Viva Nigeria
- Obe! (Soup)
- Olulufu Mi
- Swegbe And Pako
- Black Man's Cry
- Shakara (Oloje) Braggart (Liar)
- J'ehin J'ehin (Chop Teeth-Chop Teeth)
- Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'n Quench)
- Intro
- Ololufe Mi
- Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
- Look and Laugh
- Mr. Grammarticalogylisationalism is the Boss
- Monkey Banana
- Ariya
- Unnecessary Begging
- Swegbe and Pako
- Mr. Follow Follow
- Africa Centre of the World
- Open & Close
- Swegbe and Pako
- Gbagada Gbagada Gbagodo Gbogodo
- Alu Jon Jonki Jon
- Jeun Ko Ku (Chop 'n Quench)
- Eko Ile
- Je Nwi Temi (Don't Gag Me)
- Lady
- Shakara
- Gentleman (edit version)
- Water No Get Enemy (edit version)
- Zombie
- Sorrow Tears and Blood
- No Agreement, Part 2
- Signature Tune
- It's Highlife Time
- Lagos Baby
- Omuti
- Ololufe
- Araba's Delight
- Wa dele
- Lai Se
- Mi o Mo
- Obirin le
- Omo Ejo
- Bonfu
- Fere
- Onifere No 2
- Oyejo
- Oluruka
- Awo
- Great Kids
- Amaechi's Blues
- Yese
- Egbin
- Orise
- Eke
- VC 7
- I know your feeling
- Alagbara
- Ajo
- Signature Tune
- High life Time
- Lagos Baby
- Omuti Soul
- Olulufe Mi
- Araba's delight
- Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (1)
- Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (2)
- Look and Laugh (1)
- Look and Laugh (2)
- Equalisation of Pants and Trousers
- Yellow Fever
- Water No Got Enemy
- Kalukuta Show (intro)
- Kalukuta Show
- Lady
- Zombie
- No Agreement
- Authority Stealing
- Palm Wine Sound
- Opposite People
- Shakara (Oloje)
- Chop and Quench
- Let's Start
- Black Man's Cry
- Lady
- Alu Jon Jonki Jon
- Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want to Die)
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Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't teach Me No Nonsense
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- Duration: 9:59
- Published: 28 Apr 2007
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
fela kuti live
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Fela Kuti "Gentleman" (1973)
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- Duration: 10:59
- Published: 29 Jul 2008
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
From his 1973 album "Gentleman". The late great Fela Anikulapo Kuti, (15 October 1938 - 2 August 1997), real name Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, the pioneer of Afrobeat music. A Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, human rights activist, and political maverick. Regarding his name change. He was known as Fela Ransome-Kuti until about 1978, when he renamed himself Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the middle name meaning 'he who carries death in his pouch'. He was a human-rights revolutionary who started his own political party, Movement Of The People, to protest the kleptocracy in Nigeria. He had his own compound called the Kalakuta Republic, in Lagos, which he declared independent from Nigeria, where he and his uncountable number of wives lived, and were constantly terrorized by the government. His influence on funk and African music is unsurpassed with approximately 77 albums. The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is essentially a fusion of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, and traditional African chants and rhythms. It is characterized by having African-style percussion, vocals, and musical structure, along with jazzy, funky horn sections. The endless groove is also used, in which a base rhythm of drums, shekere, muted guitar, and bass guitar are repeated throughout the song. His band was notable for featuring two baritone saxophones, whereas most groups using this instrument only use one. This is a common technique in African and <b>...</b>
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Fela Kuti "Water No Get Enemy" (1975)
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- Duration: 10:59
- Published: 10 Aug 2008
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
Taken from his 1975 album "Exspensive Shit" en.wikipedia.org Expensive Shit is his twelfth full-length album. It is considered to be one of his best albums, and was ranked #78 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s". The title of the album refers to an incident in which the Nigerian police tried to arrest Kuti by planting a joint on him. Kuti managed to eat the joint which prompted the police to bring him into custody and try to wait for him to produce the excrement. According to legend he managed to use another inmate's feces and was eventually released.
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Fela in performance (1971)
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- Duration: 7:45
- Published: 13 May 2007
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
rare early footage (shot by Ginger Baker) featuring Fela & Afrika 70 performing in the rainy southeastern town of Calabar, shortly after the the Nigerian civil war
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Fela Kuti "Expensive Shit" (1975)
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- Duration: 10:14
- Published: 30 Dec 2008
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 2 August 1997), or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick. Expensive Shit is the twelfth full-length album by Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. It is considered to be one of his best albums, and was ranked #78 on Pitchfork Media's "Top 100 Albums of the 1970s". The title of the album refers to an incident in which the Nigerian police tried to arrest Kuti by planting a joint on him. Kuti managed to eat the joint which prompted the police to bring him into custody and try to wait for him to produce the excrement. According to legend he managed to use another inmate's feces and was eventually released. The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is essentially a fusion of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, and traditional African chants and rhythms. It is characterized by having African-style percussion, vocals, and musical structure, along with jazzy, funky horn sections. The endless groove is also used, in which a base rhythm of drums, shekere, muted guitar, and bass guitar are repeated throughout the song. His band was notable for featuring two baritone saxophones, whereas most groups using this instrument only use one. This is a common technique in African and African-influenced musical styles, and can be seen in funk and hip-hop. Some elements often present in Felas music are the call-and-response within the chorus <b>...</b>
http://wn.com/Fela_Kuti_Expensive_Shit_1975
Nigeria - African Music Legends - Fela Kuti in Concert 1
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- Duration: 27:29
- Published: 11 Jul 2007
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
FUN
http://wn.com/Nigeria_African_Music_Legends_Fela_Kuti_in_Concert_1
Fela Kuti - Live at Glastonbury 1984 (Full Show Hi-Q)
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- Duration: 70:36
- Published: 05 Jun 2012
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Pyramid stage at Glasto '84 with the afrobeat legend (RIP) Fela Kuti.
http://wn.com/Fela_Kuti_Live_at_Glastonbury_1984_Full_Show_Hi-Q
Fela Kuti- The Greatest Hits
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- Duration: 50:28
- Published: 21 Jul 2011
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
fela kuti
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Fela Kuti - Shakara (Audio)
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- Duration: 7:01
- Published: 02 Sep 2007
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
The Iconoclastic Fela Kuti!
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Fela Kuti - Shuffering and Shmiling
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- Duration: 21:36
- Published: 05 Nov 2011
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
Suffer suffer for world....enjoy for heaven!
http://wn.com/Fela_Kuti_Shuffering_and_Shmiling
Fela Kuti - Music Is The Weapon (Documentary)
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- Duration: 52:31
- Published: 07 Dec 2011
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
The documentary "Fela Kuti Music is the Weapon" wit the Afrobeat legend, political revolutionary, musician, composer and performer, mixes footage of Fela Anikulapo Kuti performing at his Shrine nightclub, interviews with the controversial musician, glimpses of life at his not-so-palatial Kalakuta Republic compound, and scenes of Lagos street life. Some voice-over narration gives basic information on Kuti's musical career and Nigerian politics, but for the most part, the images are left to speak for themselves. Well shot in color, it's an important historical document capturing Kuti in stage and home environments that were most crucial to his life and work. Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life." Fela Kuti
http://wn.com/Fela_Kuti_Music_Is_The_Weapon_Documentary
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Pansa Pansa 1/2 (Berlin 1978)
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- Duration: 9:56
- Published: 20 Nov 2010
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
One of the few pro-shot concerts of legendary musician Fela Kuti with his band Africa 70, playing for the jazz festival in Berlin, 1978. Fela was a social activist and leader who fought for freedom and justice in Nigeria. He died in 1997. DVD taken from "Fela Kuti Anthology 2"
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Army Arrangement
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- Duration: 5:13
- Published: 10 Dec 2006
- Updated: 08 Oct 2012
Please check out Dan Dinello's new short ebook: "Finding Fela: My Strange Journey to Meet the AfroBeat King" It's available on Smashwords.com (all formats) as well as Amazon.com (Kindle), BarnesandNoble (Nook), and the iTunes store (ipad, iphone, etc.) In this music video made for Amnesty International, Fela Kuti performs "Army Arrangement" in London and Lagos (at The Shrine in Okeja). It ends with news of Fela's 1984 arrest in 1984. Fela died in 1997. For further information on Fela and his son Femi, see shockproductions.com/shockzine
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FELA KUTI (Sorrow, Tears and Blood)
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- Duration: 10:12
- Published: 31 Jul 2008
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
FELA KUTI
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FELA . U BE THIEF
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- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 20 Apr 2006
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
U BE THIEF
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Fela Kuti - Yellow Fever
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- Duration: 15:24
- Published: 07 May 2011
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
Lady/Water No Get Enemy by. Fela Kuti
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:50
- Published: 09 Apr 2007
- Updated: 13 Oct 2012
Lady and Water No get Enemy
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Shuffering & Shimiling by. Fela Kuti
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:28
- Published: 09 Jun 2007
- Updated: 10 Oct 2012
Shuffering & Shimiling
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Fela Kuti - Power Show
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 18:07
- Published: 08 Jan 2011
- Updated: 14 Oct 2012
Live in Berlin - 1978
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Fela Kuti - Let's Start
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- Duration: 7:48
- Published: 16 Jan 2009
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
Fela Kuti - Let's Start from the album Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa '70 with Ginger Baker - Live! MCA Records 1971 If you like the music, please support the artists by buying it!
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Nigeria - Fela Kuti - African Music Legends in Concert 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 26:53
- Published: 11 Jul 2007
- Updated: 11 Oct 2012
FUN
http://wn.com/Nigeria_Fela_Kuti_African_Music_Legends_in_Concert_2
Fela Kuti - Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:55
- Published: 07 May 2009
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
Fela Kuti - Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
http://wn.com/Fela_Kuti_Trouble_Sleep_Yanga_Wake_Am
Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 - Fire Dance
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- Duration: 9:52
- Published: 07 Jul 2008
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
Here's Seun Kuti, son of Nigeria's legendary Fela Kuti performing 'Fire Dance' from his first release, 2008's Many Things . I had the great pleasure of witnessing and filming this incredible show in Toronto on July 2, 2008.
http://wn.com/Seun_Kuti_Fela's_Egypt_80_Fire_Dance
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"Fela" redirects here. For the Broadway musical, see Fela!.
| Fela Kuti | |
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 Fela Kuti in 1970 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti |
| Also known as | Fela Anikulapo Kuti Fela Ransome-Kuti |
| Born | (1938-10-15)15 October 1938 Abeokuta, Nigeria |
| Died | 2 August 1997(1997-08-02) (aged 58) |
| Genres | Afrobeat, Highlife |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, activist |
| Instruments | Saxophone, vocals, keyboards, trumpet, guitar, drums |
| Years active | 1958–1997 |
| Labels | Barclay/PolyGram, MCA/Universal, Celluloid, EMI Nigeria, JVC, Wrasse, Shanachie, Knitting Factory |
| Associated acts | Africa '70, Egypt '80, Koola Lobitos, Nigeria '70, Hugh Masekela, Ginger Baker, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti, Roy Ayers, Lester Bowie |
| Website | www.felaproject.net |
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 — 2 August 1997), or simply Fela ([feˈlæ]), was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.[1]
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Biography[link]
Early life and career[link]
Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti[2] in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria[3] into a middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers.[4] His brothers, Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, both medical doctors, are well known in Nigeria. Fela was a first cousin to the Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Fela was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music. While there, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a fusion of jazz and highlife.[5] In 1960, Fela married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor, with whom he would have three children (Femi, Yeni, and Sola). In 1963, Fela moved back to Nigeria, re-formed Koola Lobitos and trained as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. He played for some time with Victor Olaiya and his All Stars.[6]
In 1967, he went to Ghana to think up a new musical direction.[4] That was when Kuti first called his music Afrobeat.[4] In 1969, Fela took the band to the United States. While there, Fela discovered the Black Power movement through Sandra Smith (now Izsadore)—a partisan of the Black Panther Party — which would heavily influence his music and political views and renamed the band Nigeria '70. Soon, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was tipped off by a promoter that Fela and his band were in the U.S. without work permits. The band then performed a quick recording session in Los Angeles that would later be released as The '69 Los Angeles Sessions.
1970s[link]
After Fela and his band returned to Nigeria, the band was renamed The Africa '70, as lyrical themes changed from love to social issues.[5] He then formed the Kalakuta Republic, a commune, a recording studio, and a home for many connected to the band that he later declared independent from the Nigerian state. Fela set up a nightclub in the Empire Hotel, named the Afro-Spot and then the Afrika Shrine, where he performed regularly. Fela also changed his middle name to Anikulapo (meaning "he who carries death in his pouch"),[7] stating that his original middle name of Ransome was a slave name. The recordings continued, and the music became more politically motivated.[citation needed]
Fela's music became very popular among the Nigerian public and Africans in general.[8] In fact, he made the decision to sing in Pidgin English so that his music could be enjoyed by individuals all over Africa, where the local languages spoken are very diverse and numerous. As popular as Fela's music had become in Nigeria and elsewhere, it was also very unpopular with the ruling government, and raids on the Kalakuta Republic were frequent. During 1972, Ginger Baker recorded Stratavarious with Fela appearing alongside Bobby Gass.[9] Around this time, Kuti was becoming more involved in Yoruba religion.[10]
In 1977, Fela and the Afrika '70 released the album Zombie, a scathing attack on Nigerian soldiers using the zombie metaphor to describe the methods of the Nigerian military. The album was a smash hit and infuriated the government, setting off a vicious attack against the Kalakuta Republic, during which one thousand soldiers attacked the commune. Fela was severely beaten, and his elderly mother was thrown from a window, causing fatal injuries. The Kalakuta Republic was burned, and Fela's studio, instruments, and master tapes were destroyed. Fela claimed that he would have been killed had it not been for the intervention of a commanding officer as he was being beaten. Fela's response to the attack was to deliver his mother's coffin to the Dodan Barracks in Lagos, General Olusegun Obasanjo's residence, and to write two songs, "Coffin for Head of State" and "Unknown Soldier", referencing the official inquiry that claimed the commune had been destroyed by an unknown soldier.[11]
Fela and his band then took residence in Crossroads Hotel as the Shrine had been destroyed along with his commune. In 1978, Fela married twenty-seven women, many of whom were his dancers, composers, and singers to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Kalakuta Republic. Later, he was to adopt a rotation system of keeping only twelve simultaneous wives.[12] The year was also marked by two notorious concerts, the first in Accra in which riots broke out during the song "Zombie", which led to Fela being banned from entering Ghana. The second was at the Berlin Jazz Festival after which most of Fela's musicians deserted him, due to rumors that Fela was planning to use the entire proceeds to fund his presidential campaign.
Despite the massive setbacks, Fela was determined to come back. He formed his own political party, which he called Movement of the People. In 1979, he put himself forward for President in Nigeria's first elections for more than a decade, but his candidature was refused. At this time, Fela created a new band called Egypt '80 and continued to record albums and tour the country. He further infuriated the political establishment by dropping the names of ITT vice-president Moshood Abiola and then General Olusegun Obasanjo at the end of a hot-selling 25-minute political screed titled "I.T.T. (International Thief-Thief)".
1980s and beyond[link]
In 1984, Muhammadu Buhari's government, of which Kuti was a vocal opponent, jailed him on a charge of currency smuggling which Amnesty International and others denounced as politically motivated.[13] His case was taken up by several human-rights groups, and after 20 months, he was released from prison by General Ibrahim Babangida. On his release he divorced his twelve remaining wives, saying that "marriage brings jealousy and selfishness".[12]
Once again, Fela continued to release albums with Egypt '80, made a number of successful tours of the United States and Europe and also continued to be politically active. In 1986, Fela performed in Giants Stadium in New Jersey as part of the Amnesty International A Conspiracy of Hope concert, sharing the bill with Bono, Carlos Santana, and The Neville Brothers. In 1989, Fela and Egypt '80 released the anti-apartheid Beasts of No Nation album that depicts on its cover U.S. President Ronald Reagan, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and South African Prime Minister Pieter Willem Botha.
His album output slowed in the 1990s, and eventually he stopped releasing albums altogether. In 1993, he and four members of the Afrika '70 organization were arrested for murder. The battle against military corruption in Nigeria was taking its toll, especially during the rise of dictator Sani Abacha. Rumors were also spreading that he was suffering from an illness for which he was refusing treatment.
Death[link]
On 3 August 1997, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, already a prominent AIDS activist and former Minister of Health, stunned the nation by announcing his younger brother's death a day earlier from Kaposi's sarcoma which was brought on by AIDS. More than a million people attended Fela's funeral at the site of the old Shrine compound. A new Africa Shrine has opened since Fela's death in a different section of Lagos under the supervision of his son Femi Kuti.
Music[link]
Main article: Afrobeat
The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is a complex fusion of Jazz, Funk, Ghanaian/Nigerian High-life, psychedelic rock, and traditional West African chants and rhythms. Afrobeat also borrows heavily from the native "tinker pan" African-style percussion that Kuti acquired while studying in Ghana with Hugh Masekela, under the uncanny Hedzoleh Soundz.[14] The importance of the input of Tony Allen (Fela's drummer of twenty years) in the creation of Afrobeat cannot be overstated. Fela once famously stated that "without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat".
Afrobeat is characterized by a fairly large band with many instruments, vocals, and a musical structure featuring jazzy, funky horn sections. The "endless groove" is used, in which a base rhythm of drums, shekere, muted West African-style guitar, and melodic bass guitar riffs are repeated throughout the song. Commonly, interlocking melodic riffs and rhythms are introduced one by one, building the groove bit-by-bit and layer-by-layer to an astonishing melodic and polyrhythmic complexity. The horn section then becomes prominent, introducing other riffs and main melodic themes.
Fela's band was notable for featuring two baritone saxophones, whereas most groups were using only one of this instrument. This is a common technique in African and African-influenced musical styles, and can be seen in funk and hip hop. Fela's bands at times even performed with two bassists at the same time both playing interlocking melodies and rhythms. There were always two or more guitarists. The electric West African style guitar in Afrobeat bands are paramount, but are used to give basic structure, playing a repeating chordal/melodic statement, riff, or groove.
Some elements often present in Fela's music are the call-and-response within the chorus and figurative but simple lyrics. Fela's songs were also very long, at least 10–15 minutes in length, and many reaching the 20 or even 30 minutes, while some unreleased tracks would last up to 45 minutes when performed live. This was one of many reasons that his music never reached a substantial degree of popularity outside Africa. His LP records frequently had one 30-minute track per side. Typically there is an instrumental "introduction" jam part of the song, perhaps 10-15 minutes long, before Fela starts singing the "main" part.
His songs were mostly sung in Nigerian pidgin, although he also performed a few songs in the Yoruba language. Fela's main instruments were the saxophone and the keyboards, but he also played the trumpet, electric guitar, and took the occasional drum solo. Fela refused to perform songs again after he had already recorded them, which also hindered his popularity outside Africa.
Fela was known for his showmanship, and his concerts were often quite outlandish and wild. He referred to his stage act as the Underground Spiritual Game. Fela attempted making a movie but lost all the materials to the fire that was set to his house by the military government in power. Kuti thought that art, and thus his own music, should have political meaning.[10]
Political views[link]
| “ | Imagine Che Guevara and Bob Marley rolled into one person and you get a sense of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti. | ” |
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As a supporter of traditional religions and lifestyles, Kuti thought that the most important thing for Africans to fight is European cultural imperialism.[10] The American Black Power movement also influenced Fela's political views; he was a supporter of Pan-Africanism and socialism, and called for a united, democratic African republic. He was a candid supporter of human rights, and many of his songs are direct attacks against dictatorships, specifically the militaristic governments of Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s. He was also a social commentator, and he criticized his fellow Africans (especially the upper class) for betraying traditional African culture. The African culture he believed in also included having many wives (polygyny) and the Kalakuta Republic was formed in part as a polygamist colony. He defended his stance on polygyny with the words: "A man goes for many women in the first place. Like in Europe, when a man is married, when the wife is sleeping, he goes out and fucks around. He should bring the women in the house, man, to live with him, and stop running around the streets!"[16] His views towards women are characterized by some as misogynist, with songs like "Mattress" typically cited as evidence[17] In a more complex example, he mocks the aspiration of African women to European standards of ladyhood while extolling the values of the market woman in his song "Lady".
Bypassing editorial censorship in Nigeria's predominantly state controlled media, Kuti began in the 1970s buying advertising space in daily and weekly newspapers such as The Daily Times and The Punch in order to run outspoken political columns.[18] Published throughout the 1970s and early 1980s under the title Chief Priest Say, these columns were essentially extensions of Kuti's famous Yabi Sessions—consciousness-raising word-sound rituals, with himself as chief priest, conducted at his Lagos nightclub. Organized around a militantly Afrocentric rendering of history and the essence of black beauty, Chief Priest Say focused on the role of cultural hegemony in the continuing subjugation of Africans. Kuti addressed a number of topics, from explosive denunciations of the Nigerian Government's criminal behavior; Islam and Christianity's exploitative nature, and evil multinational corporations; to deconstructions of Western medicine, Black Muslims, sex, pollution, and poverty. Chief Priest Say was cancelled, first by Daily Times then by Punch, ostensibly due to non-payment, but many commentators[who?] have speculated that the paper's respective editors were placed under increasingly violent pressure to stop publication.
The Fela revival[link]
In recent years there has been a revitalization of Fela's influence on music and popular culture, culminating in another re-release of his catalog controlled by Universal Music, off- and on-Broadway biopic shows, and new bands, such as Antibalas, who carry the Afrobeat banner to a new generation of listeners.
In 1999, Universal Music France, under the aegis of Francis Kertekian, remastered the 45 albums that it controlled and released them on twenty-six compact discs. These titles were licensed to other territories of the world with the exception of Nigeria and Japan, where Fela's music was controlled by other companies. In 2005, Universal Music USA licensed all of its world-music titles to the UK-based label Wrasse Records, which repackaged the same twenty-six CDs for distribution in the USA (replacing the MCA-issued titles there) and the UK. In 2009, Universal created a new deal for the USA with Knitting Factory Records and for Europe with PIAS, which included the release of the Fela! Broadway cast album.
Thomas McCarthy's 2008 film The Visitor depicted a disconnected professor (Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins) who wanted to play the djembe. He learns from a young Syrian (Haaz Sleiman) who tells the professor he will never truly understand African music unless he listens to Fela. The film features clips of Fela's "Open and Close" and "Je'nwi Temi (Don't Gag Me)".
In 2008, an off-Broadway production of Fela Kuti's life titled Fela! began with a collaborative workshop between the Afrobeat band Antibalas and Tony award-winner Bill T. Jones. The show was a massive success, selling out shows during its run, and garnering much critical acclaim. On November 22, 2009, Fela! began a run on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theater. Jim Lewis helped co-write the play (along with Bill T. Jones), and obtained producer backing from Jay-Z and Will Smith, among others. On May 4, 2010, Fela! was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Direction of a Musical for Bill T. Jones, Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Sahr Ngaujah, and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Lillias White.[19]
On August 18, 2009, award-winning DJ J.Period released a free mixtape to the general public via his website that was a collaboration with Somali-born hip-hop artist K'naan paying tribute to Fela, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan, entitled The Messengers.
In October 2009, Knitting Factory Records began the process of re-releasing the 45 titles that Universal Music controls, starting with yet another re-release of the compilation The Best of the Black President in the USA. The rest is expected to be released in 2010.[dated info]
In addition, a movie by Focus Features, directed by Steve McQueen and written by Biyi Bandele about the life of Fela Kuti went into production in 2010. It was announced in 2010 that Chiwetel Ejiofor would play the lead role.[20]
Discography[link]
Main article: Fela Kuti discography
Filmography[link]
- Fela in Concert, 1981, (VIEW)
- Music is the Weapon, 1982, Stéphane Tchal-Gadjieff and Jean Jacques Flori (Universal Music)
- Fela Live! Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the Egypt ’80 Band, 1984, Recorded Live At Glastonbury, England (Yazoo)
- Femi Kuti—Live at the Shrine, 2005, recorded Live At Lagos, Nigeria (Palm Pictures)
Notes[link]
- ^ "Seattle Weekly: Barack Obama and the Original First Black President". http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/07/barack_obama_and_the_original.php. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ Ogunnaike, Lola (17 July 2003). "Celebrating the Life and Impact Of the Nigerian Music Legend Fela". The New York Times (Manhattan, New York, USA: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.). http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/arts/celebrating-the-life-and-impact-of-the-nigerian-music-legend-fela.html?pagewanted=2. Retrieved 18 November 2010.
- ^ Hamilton, Janice. Nigeria in Pictures p. 70
- ^ a b c STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF AFROBEAT MUSIC OF FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI by Albert Oikelome
- ^ a b Olatunji, Michael (2007). "Yabis: A Phenomenon in the Contemporary Nigerian Music". The Journal of Pan African Studies 1: 26–46. http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol1no9/Yabis.pdf.
- ^ David Ryshpan. "Victor Olaiya, All Star Soul International". Exclaim!. http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid1=136&csid2=849&fid1=40282. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ "Meaning of Anikulapo in". Nigerian.name. 2008-01-11. http://www.nigerian.name/w/index.php?title=Anikulapo. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
- ^ "Fela Anikulapo Kuti: The ‘ghost’ resurrects and the beat goes on, a preview by The Independence". Emnnews.com. http://emnnews.com/archive/fela-anikulapo-kuti-the-ghost-resurrects-and-the-beat-goes-on-a-review-by-the-independence. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
- ^ Bobby Gass credits Allmusic
- ^ a b c Grass, Randall F. (1986). "Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: The Art of an Afrobeat Rebel". The Drama Review: TDR (MIT Press) 30 (1): 131–148. DOI:10.2307/1145717. JSTOR 1145717.
- ^ Matthew McKinnon (August 12, 2005). "Rebel Yells: A protest music mixtape". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/photoessay/protest/index14.html. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
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- ^ As Iwedi Ojinmah points out in his article "Baba is Dead - Long Live Baba,"
- ^ Man of Beats Brings a Message with him by Blanche Clark, Herald Sun, February 4, 2011
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References[link]
- Moore, Carlos (1982). Fela, Fela! This Bitch of a Life. Allison & Busby. UK. [authorized biography]
- Idowu, Mabinuori Kayode (2002). Fela, le Combattant. Le Castor Astral. France.
- Olaniyan, Tejumola (2004). Arrest the Music! Fela and his rebel art and politics. Indiana University Press. USA.
- Olorunyomi, Sola (2002). Afrobeat: Fela and the Imagined Continent. Africa World Press. ??.
- Schoonmaker, Trevor (ed) (2003). Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway. Palgrave Macmillan. USA.
- Schoonmaker, Trevor (ed) (2003). Black President: The Art & Legacy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. New Museum Of Contemporary Art, New York. ISBN 0-915557-87-8.
- Veal, Michael E. (1997). Fela: The Life of an African Musical Icon. Temple University Press. USA.
- Jaboro, Majemite. (2009). The Ikoyi Prison Narratives: The Spiritualism and Political Philosophy of Fela Kuti. lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-4452-2626-2.
External links[link]
- Official website
- 'He was in a godlike state' - Guardian feature by Alex Hannaford, 25 July 2007.
- The Shrine Unofficial website for Fela Kuti and Afrobeat Music with news, bio's, tour dates, gig reviews, interviews, and lyrics.
- Fela Kuti discography at Discogs
- Fela Kuti article from the New Official Ginger Baker Archive and Drummers forum launched by the Baker family September 2010
- Fela Kuti biography at World Music Central, includes biography, discography and bibliography
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| Name | Kuti, Fela |
| Alternative names | Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (real name) |
| Short description | Musician and actor |
| Date of birth | 10 October 1938 |
| Place of birth | Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria |
| Date of death | 2 August 1997 |
| Place of death | Nigeria |
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| Seun Kuti | |
|---|---|
 Seun Kuti @ Marsatac Festival 2008 (Marseille, France) |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti |
| Born | 11 January 1983 |
| Origin | Nigeria |
| Genres | Afrobeat |
| Instruments | Saxophone, vocals |
| Labels | Knitting Factory Records |
| Associated acts | Egypt 80 |
| Website | Seun Kuti on Myspace |
Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983), 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.
Seun and his brother Femi are the two successful[citation needed] musical offspring of the late Nigerian afrobeat innovator Fela Kuti. Seun has one younger sister who used to sing in his band. At the age of nine Seun expressed the wish to sing to his father[citation needed]. A short while later Seun started acting as a sort of mascot and would sing a few songs backed by Egypt 80 before his father took to the stage. Since then, Seun has followed the political and social ethos of his father.
After Fela’s death of AIDS in 1997 Seun, then only 14 years old, became the lead singer of Egypt 80. While in school Seun had to choose between a career in music and one in African Football for which he has an outstanding talent[citation needed]. He had a friend performing for crowds too, sometimes consisting of only 3 or 4 people. He honed his musical skills for several years. Those skills were showcased to the world with his 2008 debut album, Many Things, produced by Martin Meissonnier, who had already produced two albums for his father.
About three-fourths of the current Egypt 80 line-up consists of musicians that not only played with Fela Kuti, but often were arrested and harassed alongside the founder of the Afrobeat movement. Live sets consist of both new material and originals from Seun’s father. During his lifetime Fela Kuti never performed songs he had recorded, so for many fans this is their first chance to enjoy classics like Shuffering and Shmiling, Colonial Mentality and Army Arrangement in a live setting. A new studio album called "From Africa with Fury: Rise" was released on 5 April 2011.
Seun Kuti is featured in Calle 13's song "Todo se mueve" (Everything Moves), on their 2010 album Entren los que quieran.
His last album, From Africa With Fury: Rise, was recorded in London, produced by Brian Eno, John Reynolds and Seun himself.
He participated actively in the Occupy Nigeria protests against the fuel subsidy removal policy of President Goodluck Jonathan in his native Nigeria, in January 2012.
Discography[link]
- Think Africa (12", 2007)
- Many Things (CD & LP album, 2008, Tôt ou Tard)
- Many Things (CD & LP album, 2008, Disorient Records)
- From Africa With Fury: Rise (2011, Knitting Factory Records/Because Music)
See also[link]
External links[link]
- The Unofficial Fan-Site – Unofficial fan-site for Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 with news, videos, music, pictures and much more (French or English)]
- The Shrine – Unofficial website for Fela Kuti and Afrobeat Music with news, bio's, tour dates, gig reviews, interviews, and lyrics.
- Podcast interview with Seun Kuti and excerpts from his music on flyglobalmusic.com
- Seun Kuti / Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 discographies at Discogs
- Seun Kuti on Myspace
- Kokolo Official Homepage
- Afropop Worldwide's Slideshow of Seun Kuti's Debut NYC Appearance, July 2007
- Biography at Planète Aurora
- June 2008 Interview with L.A. Record
- Audio interview with Kuti on The Sound of Young America
- Musical warrior. Interview in The Sydney Morning Herald, February 21, 2009.
- [1]. Interview for CFM, a French radio, released during a jazz festival on July 2009.
- [VIDEO] Interview with Seun Kuti at his home in Lagos, Nigeria (August 2010).
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| Name | Kuti,Seun |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | |
| Date of birth | 1982 |
| Place of birth | |
| Date of death | |
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