Let me today remember an Angel I once met in this life. Let’s simply call her Sola. Angel Sola Kuti. She’s Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s daughter. My devotion to Fela as an unbeatable music maestro is a very long story, but that…
Conversation: Who was Abami Eda?
Who was Abami Eda? You mean Fela? Oh, that strange being! Funny you should say so, Abami Eda means strange being, I hear he was highly eccentric, Well, I rather think he was Afrocentric, And his many women? He only…
When BAP Productions staged Soyinka’s historical drama “Death and the King’s Horseman” – Anote Ajeluorou
Bolanle Austen-Peters is a strong advocate of the African storytelling as an important export to the outside world. She believes no other person can tell the African story better than the way Africans can tell it with authenticity. She also…
BANTU returns with new album “Everybody Get Agenda”
Two years after the success of Agberos International, BANTU has a new album titled Everybody Get Agenda. Recorded at Rigmaroll & Blackstar Studio in Lagos, mixed by Manu Schlindwein in Cologne, German (Patrice, Mariama, Angelique Kidjo), and produced by Grammy…
Sonala strikes sixty-five – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Friday, May 15, in this Corona-tainted year of 2020 marks the 65th birthday of the inimitable journalist’s journalist Sonala Olumhense. I doubt that I would ever have become a journalist if not for my eventful meeting with the man called…
Dear millennial, let me introduce you to Fela Kuti – Dami Ajayi
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti would have turned 81 on October 15 of this year, but for the fact that he has been dead for more than 22 years. The implication of this is that there is a cohort of Millenials who never…
Who Fela epp?: 5 Nigerian Artistes Inspired by Fela Anikulapo Kuti – Uzoma Ihejirika
Every year, all around the world, the life and works of Nigeria’s foremost musical icon, late Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s are commemorated with music, arts and fanfare at the weeklong Felabration festival.Founded 21 years ago by Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti, Felabration presents an opportunity to…
Felabration 2019 kicks off October 14 with Chimamanda and Bobi Wine
Felabration, the annual celebration and memorial in honour of Afrobeat maestro and music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti returns this October with an exciting lineup of music and thought leadership events. Felabration which is in its 21st year is an annual…
Burna Boy and the Fela influence – Dami Ajayi
Twenty-two years after Fela‘s death, his accomplished older son, Femi Kuti, is 58 years old, the exact age Fela was when he succumbed to HIV/AIDS. Seun Kuti, his younger son, in whose hands the mantle of leading the Egypt 80…
5 times Falz proved to be Fela’s biggest fan
On June 8, the walls of Eko Convention Centre will be bursting at the seams with excitement, colour and music as A-list Nigerian entertainer, Falz, prepares to take the stage for the second edition of his highly anticipated live show,…