What You Must About The legendary Fela Anikulapo kuti...


[Note:the initial intention was to highlight the creative impact of Fela's music on the continent of Afrika,but decided that the enigmatic lifestyle of Fela is even more creative]

Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome Kuti on 15th October 1938 in Abeokuta,Ogun state.

Fela is the first cousin to the Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka,the first African to win the Nobel prize for literature.

He was arrested 200 times and endured numerous beatings,but continued to write political lyrics,producing albums before he died on August 2,1997 in Lagos.

He changed his middle name to Anikulapo(meaning"he who carries death in his pouch,"with the interpretation"I will be master of my own destiny and will decide when it is time for death to take me".

He said that his original middle name was a slave name.

In 1977,Fela and the Afrika 70 released the album Zombie,a scathing attack on Nigerian soldiers using the zombie metaphor..
....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 (whose house was located opposite the commune) was thrown from a window, causing fatal injuries.

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”

In 1979, he put himself forward for President in Nigeria’s first elections for more than a decade, but his candidature was refused.

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.

He was released from prison by General Ibrahim Babangida after 20 months, On his release he divorced his 12 remaining wives, saying that “marriage brings jealousy and selfishness”

In 1989, Fela and Egypt ’80 released the anti-apartheid Beasts of No Nation that depicts on its cover U.S. President Ronald Reagan, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and South African State President Pieter Willem Botha.

Posted www.ngvoiceforum.com.ng/2016/10/what-you-must-about-legendary-fela.html?m=1

LEGEND!......

The legendary fela

D guy try.... But I wonder what he realy wanted 2 do at d presidency

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