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...

Fela Kuti graces the first-ever cover of Rolling Stone Africa, cementing his legendary status in Afrobeat music.

Long live afrobeat... Fela Kuti

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…

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…

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.

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Musical visionary, street preacher, incendiary political activist, and Afro-beat progenitor, Fela Anikulapo Kuti is chronicled in Fela Kuti – Music is the Weapon, a compelling 1982 documentary directed by Stéphane Tchal-Gadjieff and Jean Jacques Flori. The film documents all-night politically charged performances at Fela’s Shrine nightclub, intimate takes from inside his Kalakuta Republic compound, and scenes of street culture in Lagos, Nigeria. It’s not a complete picture by any means, but…