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maybe the head is missing. . .a probe panel will be instituted to get it done. .

lol, baba seventy

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Aiming for that statue like

Afonja land a place where heads go missing.. Signifies ritualism aka head hunting. A trade well known in the south wastern part of Nigeria.

Nothing is said here, how can Fela not have head...you better go back to the studio and Provide the Baba 70 head.

Lalasticlala the head is very expensive.. especially in a location where rituals are high

Lagbaja01:
if you could design that gigantic structure, designing a head should not be that difficult....something tells me both the artist n Fela's family r hidden something.

And to think someone with the username Lagbaja and also knowing what Lagbaja's masked persona stood for... Is asking this sort of question , beats me hollow, to be very frank!

Who can tell that's Fela from a distance. He no sabi sculpture the head make e resemble Fela #fullstop

Because he's not the head

ryd3:
For me, I think it's all about felas pose. That pose, without a head, made people recognise who the icon is. Thus the statue is assumed to have evoked the spirit of fela inside it, because without seeing his head or hand u already SEE him. A work of art should stir questions.... Sorry u don't get a lot of that here in Nigeria

Perfect answer! I would have loved Yeni to answer it this way.
This answer can only come from an intelligent person.

dbynonetwork:
His skull has been harvested for ritual purpose..

Very soon the Afonjas will go to IMO state and harvest the skull of JACOB ZUMA statue..

ipob

It depicts Fela costume with modernity and finesse. So what does Fela represent? Fela rep freedom,hemp smoking, rascality, erratic behavior,felabration with a rass and boozee lifestyle.
My friend that is how it should be done,otherwise if you put Fela's statue there hemp smokers,various addicts and hooligans vices will invade that roundabout and turn it a base for worrisome criminality,because all hoodlums wil gather there at night to worship his idol,which wil be bad for you ppl. Ha!!! Ambode is very wise . .

This is a symbol of what oduduwa represents
Ritual killing and skull mining. The captal is in
Yoruba land and the headquaters Lagos.

Nothing more

dbynonetwork:
His skull has been harvested for ritual purpose..

Very soon the Afonjas will go to IMO state and harvest the skull of JACOB ZUMA statue..

you should be on national geographical as first monkey to type on NL

Op have u been there? or looking at the pix and conclude i know u are lying but continue today is thursday this is weekly sanitation in lagos, otherwise mr lai tell us another story

Oga, Calm Ooo... The Head Nah Our Own And We Need Am Bfr Night. U Hear Abi? No Time.

They dont want skull miners to harvest it

The artist reasons were baseless... A cheap way to arouse peoples comments and discuss about his work..... Why in Jupiter's name should Fela be headless when Zuma has one. who deserve head sef?

Maybe the guy was underpaid, see how beautiful Marley own is

kannymoore:
And to think someone with the username Lagbaja and also knowing what Lagbaja's masked persona stood for... Is asking this sort of question , beats me hollow, to be very frank!

take heart bro.

Lamest excuse ever.
FELA is a legend,a man recognized for his music and activism even outside the shores of this country and all you could come up with after 20years of his demise is a HEADLESS statue of him.


The artist really knows nothing about FELA


I just want to pull down that statue

makes no sense still

wat's an effigy if it doesn't carry the face of the person it represents... It could damn well be any other person without the face to trade mark the identity of the supposed person who's being honored. It's just like an effigy that the head was cut off. Even if it's just the head alone that's erected is better than this insult, what does yeni knw, she doesn't want to speak her true mind, after fella none of the children could exude the kind courage their father did.

rusellweb:
https://i2.wp.com/fstrends.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fela-statue1430159498.jpg?w=430
Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti continues to be a legend even 20 years after his demise.

The 2017 edition of the festival was a special edition as it marked the 20th year anniversary of Fela’s demise, and the Lagos State government commemorated the legend by erecting ‘The Liberation’ a statue of Fela at Allen Roundabout, Ikeja, Lagos.


To the surprise of several people, the statue erected was without a head and this raised a lot of suspiscion and comments from fans of the late Afrobeat legend.

Responding on behalf of the family, Fela’s daughter and social commentator, Yeni Kuti has justified the design of the monument, saying it was the expression of how the artist felt about the late legend.

She said: ‘Before people on social media will start to say the Fela has no head or it has no hand and so on, it is art and before you abuse us, let me answer quickly. It is art. How an artist feels is how he feels because if he had put a head and the head did not look like Fela, everybody will say the head did not look like Fela so now you cannot abuse the head because it is not even there.’

The visual artist who designed the effigy, Abolore Sobayo said the work was an expression of how he feels about the late Afrobeat legend, saying that it was designed to generate discussion about the emancipation of the people. While justifying the fact that the art work had no head, Sobayo said the design came out of extensive research on what Fela represented through his music, and how to use same to correct some of the things he complained about years ago that are still happening.

‘For me as an artist, art transcends beyond beauty or aesthetics. For me, art should generate discuss; art should ask question and art should provoke our thoughts. For me, the creation of the Liberation Statue is to represent the essence of Fela by using his costume. For me, I believe that this should serve as a conscious to our subconscious that twenty years after Fela’s demise, most of the things he talked about are still happening. For me, this work should come to us not just as a beautiful work, but it should come to us as something that will ginger us to look at the positivity in our lives; positivity in the values of his music; for us to start to emancipate our people positively. Going forward, I have been able to use symbolism as a medium to represent Fela through his costume and to represent his essence,’ Sobayo said.

http://fstrends.com.ng/2017/10/reason-why-this-statue-of-fela-kuti-in-lagos-is-headless/

A very Idiotic² answer.

This is real art personified, look out most of the famous painting and art works in man's history; it's often intermixed with art that have deep meanings, you cannot just appreciate them from face value, their meanings are 'hidden'. It takes reflective or critical perusal or appraisal to understand what they really stand for and i think this one belongs to that category. nice work.

Very soon we will have image of cocain dealer in the street of lagos

the artist or yeni coming out to say the head isn't there because people might say it doesn't look like fela is a lame excuse from yeni and unprofessional on the part of the artist.

we don't find a headless statue of Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, sir Alex Ferguson statues in their respective cited city headless and people appreciate the work of the art. I don't know why things are always different in this part of the world.

even the outright condemned statue of Zuma in IMO state gets a head and befitting art work.

I love the concept!

ART!