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Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 5:46pm On Jun 23, 2020
The pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre and human rights activist. At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performer.

He was also a prophet who warned Nigeria of impending doom with "Beasts of no Nation" when he slammed Obasanjo and Buhari. Nigerians failed to heed his warning and gave these two leaders 16 years to further destroy the nation and turn it into the poverty and corruption capital of the world.

He also spoke against corruption of M.K.O Abiola and his alleged payments to government officials for I.T.T to win the telecommunications sales contracts in Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWUABi-aiYM

He was often brutalized by the military authorities and jailed for speaking out against their epidemic corruption and misgovernance. The saturation point was reached when the military killed his grandmother by throwing her off the second floor of one of the building in his shrine.

Fela Kuti is recognized by world leaders like Former United States President,Barack Obama, who is acknowledged his work to Prime Minister of France,Emanuel Macron, whose first port of call when he came to Nigeria, was Fela Shrine in Lagos. He has also been immortalized by Hip Hop royalty Jay Z and Hollywood royalty Will Smith, who teamed up to immortalize his work in a Broadway Musical "Fela!" in New York,USA.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by ebenhazard(m): 5:47pm On Jun 23, 2020
The man that forseen the future of Nigeria...and was killed miserably

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by chatinent: 5:47pm On Jun 23, 2020
Such felabration!

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by mariatt(f): 5:50pm On Jun 23, 2020
All his songs were prophecies

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Iceberg3: 5:50pm On Jun 23, 2020
Coneheaded structures would have stoned him today cos he never would've condorned this bulshyttt from tifnibi n Psy baba

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Kriss216: 5:57pm On Jun 23, 2020
One arrest, 2Face pick race cheesy cheesy

And he's claiming to be a freedom fighter grin grin



Fela, after you, na still you. Undisputed!

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 6:01pm On Jun 23, 2020
Kriss216:
One arrest 2 Face pick race cheesy cheesy

And he's claiming to be a freedom fighter grin grin



Fela, after you, na still you. Undisputed!

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by FlordFlorez(m): 6:04pm On Jun 23, 2020
Sure banker. He gave Obj 'tulobu' that year.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 6:09pm On Jun 23, 2020
mariatt:
All his songs were prophecies
100... prophecies Nigerians failed to pay heed to and now they are wailing and suffering and smiling.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by dulux07(m): 6:12pm On Jun 23, 2020
I just laugh when people compare the likes of burna boy, wizkid even tuface to him. undecided It's like comparing a lion to a dog.

The man actually criticized the leaders during the "military regime". Despite all they did to him, he didn't backdown. The man is the definition of "brave".

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by muykem: 6:16pm On Jun 23, 2020
Those are real freedom fighters in class of late Gani Fawehinmi and Beko Kuti among others not the one that ran away just to be acting porn from due contributing his emotional followers.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by muykem: 6:22pm On Jun 23, 2020
Real freedom fighters do stand with what they believe, people like Nelson Mandela. But our own heroes always run away from Ojukwu to kanu.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 6:22pm On Jun 23, 2020
FlordFlorez:
Sure banker. He gave Obj 'tulobu' that year.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 6:29pm On Jun 23, 2020
dulux07:
I just laugh when people compare the likes of burna boy, wizkid even tuface to him. undecided It's like comparing a lion to a dog.

The man actually criticized the leaders during the "military regime". Despite all they did to him, he didn't backdown. The man is the definition of "brave".

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 8:35pm On Jun 23, 2020
Iceberg3:
Coneheaded structures would have stoned him today cos he never would've condorned this bulshyttt from tifnibi n Psy baba
If Fela Kuti was around Tinubu dare not move two bullions vans in broad daylight before an election. Fela would have raised hell.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Iceberg3: 9:45pm On Jun 23, 2020
RuudVanNisteroy:

If Fela Kuti was around Tinubu dare not move two bullions vans in broad daylight before an election. Fela would have raised hell.

He will.

He will move even more,the strength of his hordes of brainwashed pawns.

If they don't listen to Afenifere today, they won't listen to Awo

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Iceberg3: 9:48pm On Jun 23, 2020
muykem:
Real freedom fighters do stand with what they believe, people like Nelson Mandela. But our own heroes always run away from Ojukwu to kanu.

And they learnt it from UsainAfonjaBolt and the ratak otapiapia rat poison legend. grin


Lzaa imhotep

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 10:01pm On Jun 23, 2020
Iceberg3:


[s]And they learnt it from UsainAfonjaBolt and the ratak otapiapia rat poison legend. grin


Lzaa imhotep[/s]

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 10:09pm On Jun 23, 2020
Iceberg3:


And they learnt it from UsainAfonjaBolt and the ratak otapiapia rat poison legend. grin


Lzaa imhotep
RuudVanNisteroy will not like this at all

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 10:11pm On Jun 23, 2020
imhotep:

RuudVanNisteroy will not like this at all

Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by muykem: 10:32am On Jun 24, 2020
Iceberg3:


And they learnt it from UsainAfonjaBolt and the ratak otapiapia rat poison legend. grin

B
Lzaa imhotep
it's a pride to kill oneself on the cause you believe. It makes you a hero than to run away.
Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 4:08pm On Jun 28, 2020
muykem:
it's a pride to kill oneself on the cause you believe. It makes you a hero than to run away.
Disagree...you can run away to fight another day.
Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by merieam16(f): 8:16pm On Jun 28, 2020
ebenhazard:
The man that forseen the future of Nigeria...and was killed miserably
Who killed him? he killed himself through his wayward life
Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by N3cR0mAZc3R(m): 9:10pm On Jun 28, 2020
merieam16:
Who killed him? he killed himself through his wayward life
Don’t talk thrash about my icon.

Nah government kill am. It’s conspiracies.
Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by merieam16(f): 9:24pm On Jun 28, 2020
N3cR0mAZc3R:

Don’t talk thrash about my icon.

Nah government kill am. It’s conspiracies.
guess u er high....hope u took d real weed as ur icon cos wif dis comment it seems u took d cheap one

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by N3cR0mAZc3R(m): 9:37pm On Jun 28, 2020
merieam16:
guess u er high....hope u took d real weed as ur icon cos wif dis comment it seems u took d cheap one
The man has his shortcomings but so did everyone else including me and you. He’s a legend plain and simple. Peace to you

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by merieam16(f): 9:39pm On Jun 28, 2020
N3cR0mAZc3R:

The man has his shortcomings but so did everyone else including me and you. He’s a legend plain and simple. Peace to you
well said .. Nw u re talkin

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Duru1(m): 10:41pm On Jun 28, 2020
RuudVanNisteroy:
The pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre and human rights activist. At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performer.

He was also a prophet who warned Nigeria of impending doom with "Beasts of no Nation" when he slammed Obasanjo and Buhari. Nigerians failed to heed his warning and gave these two leaders 16 years to further destroy the nation and turn it into the poverty and corruption capital of the world.

He also spoke against corruption of M.K.O Abiola and his alleged payments to government officials for I.T.T to win the telecommunications sales contracts in Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWUABi-aiYM

He was often brutalized by the military authorities and jailed for speaking out against their epidemic corruption and misgovernance. The saturation point was reached when the military killed his grandmother by throwing her off the second floor of one of the building in his shrine.

Fela Kuti is recognized by world leaders like Former United States President,Barack Obama, who is acknowledged his work to Prime Minister of France,Emanuel Macron, whose first port of call when he came to Nigeria, was Fela Shrine in Lagos. He has also been immortalized by Hip Hop royalty Jay Z and Hollywood royalty Will Smith, who teamed up to immortalize his work in a Broadway Musical "Fela!" in New York,USA.

Point of correct, Fela Kuti was never the pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre either in Nigeria or Africa. Yari.ba peeps always will deceitfully arrogate unfathomable accolade to themselves. Fela Kuti was just a follower of Afrobeat music.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Nobody: 10:44pm On Jun 28, 2020
Duru1:


Point of correct, Fela Kuti was never the pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre either in Nigeria or Africa. Yari.ba peeps always will deceitfully arrogate unfathomable accolade to themselves. Fela Kuti was just a follower of Afrobeat music.
He made it popular on the world stage.

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by N3cR0mAZc3R(m): 11:03pm On Jun 28, 2020
Duru1:


Point of correct, Fela Kuti was never the pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre either in Nigeria or Africa. Yari.ba peeps always will deceitfully arrogate unfathomable accolade to themselves. Fela Kuti was just a follower of Afrobeat music.
Okay. Next

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Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by Duru1(m): 11:08pm On Jun 28, 2020
RuudVanNisteroy:

He made it popular on the world stage.

You may have a point. However bands such as Osibisa and even Funkees have a say about the popularity on the world stage since these bands also performed on the world stage.
Re: Fela Kuti Is The Greatest Political Activist And Artist Nigeria Has Produced by meobizy(f): 5:11pm On Jun 29, 2020
He honestly was. We haven't seen anybody of his caliber and bravery since his demise.

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