Fela kuti

Egba people who are the original founders of the city of Abeokuta which they share with Owu people (later arrivals), had an opportunity of their land also settled on by missionaries (in the 1840s) by...

We are at a Fela Kuti gig in his home country Nigeria, in 1987. The leading figure of Afrobeat and a dedicated activist, Fela Kuti spent his life fighting for freedom. His music awakens the wildness of my soul and takes me to one of my past lives, where I…

Here is a book suggestion, we figured we'd share the info since we're buying ourselves a copy!

From Fela's famous fans to the reason he married 27 women at once, here are a few tidbits from the upcoming doc on the Godfather of Afropop

Every year is celebrated a Fela Day (few weeks ago in Paris), proving that Fela Kuti's spirit is still gliding around, despite a very varied comprehension. Good occasion anyway to search in muzzicaltrips archives, and look at how evolves perception of african music along the years. Here's an article about Fela Kuti which reveals part of the perception of a jazz magazine from 1981 (Jazz Hot, first jazz magazine in Europe created in 1935). In 1981, Fela just released Authority Stealing, not…

>Of the 2 billion Christians currently inhabiting planet earth, one quarter of them live in Africa. That was not the case just a century ago, when less than 5% of the African population was Chri…

The world has a handful of musical meccas, none more sacred than Fela Kuti's New Afrika Shrine In Lagos, Nigeria. We made a pilgrimage to shoot a fashion story with the local kids who hang out there—and to pay homage to the Black President himself.

Long live afrobeat... Fela Kuti