On February 18, 1977, exactly 40 years ago today, an Army battalion descended on Iconic Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s sprawling compound popularly regarded as Kalakuta Republic where the Afrobeat legend resided. By the time the Army was done with their ‘evil deeds’, the compound was a shadow of its self. They had set it on fire and arrested the Singer while they left his 78 year old mother of the legend, Olufunmilayo Ransome- Kuti who was also a formost women’s right activist critically wounded after being thrown out of a window in the upper floor as they carried out their destruction.
The raid which took place in the early hours of 18th February came as a shock because it was overrun by over a thousand soldiers under the guise of arresting the Afrobeat legend for keeping under-aged girls in his residence. His mother who would later die from the injuries she sustained.

RIP Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Sleep on Mighty Warrior

R.I.P to the Legend

Obasanjo

Chai.. Never knew this

i made ftc i don beliviit
happy weekend all nairalanders
dedicated to new wedded coulpes this weekend especially on nairaland

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Fela and his mum are legends... RIP.. They were brave

Kudos to our gallant army

Great

Ok

Who was the person in power then . Someone magnanimous should tell me pls

RIP Oga Fela...
Buhari would have given 2face same treatment if he had continued with that protest on Feb 6th.

Can we ever get men like Fela again in this half-dead country..?

Where

Fela the great prophet RIP

see why civillian rule is better than military rule

R. I.P legend

1 How time flies.
RIP

RIP TO A LEGENDARY LEGEND

Abami EDA fun ra e.
My dad told me he had to trek from Ibadan to lanlate (vehicle scarcity)to watch the live broadcast of his burial.

Brownville007:
Who was the person in power then . Someone magnanimous should tell me pls

Ebora Owu

unknown soldiers the military called it then..what a Pity.

God have mercy.I said it Nigeria has always been a lawless country.ekoyo mary Sandra.

Fela the great...

Where is dat kalakkuta republic, thought it was at the south east, if so then Ipob youths are being senseless for long.

I waka waka waka, them kill my mama, I go obalende, I go Jordan barracks, I reach d place ohh, Obasanjo dey dere, with his big fat stomach, yar Adua dey dere, with his neck like Ostritch..


Dem no wan take am, but them take am, dem no wan take am, but dem take am, who go wan take coffin... God bless Fela

"when Obasanjo and Yar adua chop belle full finish dem put civilians for there dem call am second republic" same Obasanjo still dey run things chai

Pistolx:
Kudos to our gallant army

Hope we are permitted to say this when u or ur family member is being bullied?

Awww,his poor mother. And she was also the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria.
That's just evil. RIP to her, and her son