The Nigerian afropop artist’s new single receives a Clarence Abiodun Peters-directed Afrocentric visual. The avant-garde afro pop artist Adekunle Gold is back with a new jam highly influenced by Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti. With its jazzy horns and […]
It all started that day when a younger brother – and a real gangster at that – burst into my “entrer-coucher” (literally “enter-and-lay-on-the-bed”, a house literally only big enough to place a bed). We’re somewhere in an […]
In Fela’s candid opinion, the album wasn’t good. According to Femi, he says “Fela condemned my first album. He said it was a very useless album.” Fela Kuti might be the outspoken one and anyone […]
After that event, there was public outrage. People were asking: wetin dis Fela do? What they knew and what was true: Fela spoke against the government. The tales of Fela and his problematic relationship with the military […]
Binda Ngazolo, whose training owes a lot to Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s albums, revisits the meaning and context of some of his most remarkable songs. In Fela’s own words. Today, “Sorrow Tears and Blood”
Like Fela, like Falz. In the early hours of Tuesday, Nigerian rapper and pop star, Falz released his fourth studio album, Moral Instruction. Few days ago, he released a viral single, “Talk” and followed it up […]
If you have ever wondered what a Fela and Burna Boy track would sound like. Nigerian DJ and producer, TMXO have a released a mash-up of Burna Boy’s ‘Ye’ and Fela’s ‘Sorrow, Tears and Blood’. […]
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