And art imitated life last night, as Idris arrived via an APXGP car from the film, wearing a white racing suit and racing helmet ... with a long shower while Fela Kuti’s Beasts of No Nation ...

Afrobeat icon, Femi Kuti has revealed that he faced opposition from his father, Fela Kuti and his fans after he left the Afrobeat pioneer’s band to form his own in 1986. He explained that Fela ...

Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti speaks on the foundation of Afrobeats Femi Kuti disputes claims that Tony Allen co-created Afrobeat with Fela According to Grammy-nominated Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti ...

Afrobeat singer Femi Kuti has disputed claims that Tony Allen co-pioneered Afrobeats with his father Fela Kuti. According to Femi, in a video, Fela was a multi-instrumentalist and composer who ...

Femi Kuti, a multiple Grammy-nominated artist and son of late Afrobeats’ pioneer, Fela Kuti, has refuted the claims that the late legendary drummer, Tony Allen co-pioneered the genre with his ...

Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story also traces funk's ...

Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti ... He always had white ones with the black ones. “Instead of Fela to wear a suit and tie so that the white women would see him as fine, the women ...

KCRW’s relationship with Fela Kuti goes back to 1980, when KCRW’s Tom Schnabel and Roger Steffens were connected with the mighty Afrobeat innovator while he was still imprisoned in Nigeria. Six years ...

Indeed, a lion cannot birth a goat. Fela comes from a lineage of activists and musicians. His mother Chief Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a human rights activist, nationalist and feminist.

Almost three decades after his passing in 1997, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the legendary Nigerian musician and activist who created the Afrobeat music movement, remains the subject of global obsession.

Seun Kuti, a Grammy-nominated performer, has spoken out about his late father and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti’s altruism, which left him without an inheritance. He noted that as a student ...