A tribute to Fela Kuti
If you know me, you would know that I am a huge Fela Fan!! I love his music, his talent and importantly his activism. Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti was the pioneer of Afrobeat music and he made the genre famous all over the world. Fela's influence is still felt in music today.
In October 2020, I paid homage to Fela through an article on the End SARS protests published in the Republic Journal. The article titled “Fela’s Republic and the End SARS protests, how Nigeria’s Youth found their own Voice” can be read in full here.
The article became one of the impactful articles on the End SARS protests resonating with so many. It highlighted the police brutality and injustice by the SARS unit and helped people around the world and at home make sense of what was happening. The article was also timely seeing as it was published on October 14, 2020, a day before what would have been Fela’s birthday in the twenty-third year anniversary of his passing.
The following was a quote from the article:
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Yes Fela performed at Glastonbury in 1984 - a legend!
