Fela Kuti penned Beasts of No Nation after time spent in prison – it has become a song, and album, that still inspires many in Nigeria today, writes Ernest Nweke. Nigeria, Africa's most populous ...

Tony Allen, the pioneering drummer who helped define Afrobeat during his tenure with Fela Kuti, died Thursday evening. He was 79. “There was no band like the Africa ’70,” Femi Kuti ...

A documentary about Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Kuti looks at how he used music not for pleasure but for revolution You can save this article by registering for free here.

He began his role with CBS Bay Area in 2015. The son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti brings his father's longtime band Egypt 80 to San Francisco to headline the Great American Music Hall ...