The Art and Legacy of Fela Kuti

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  • vespa

    9 Sept-24 Oct/04, the Barbican

    There will never be another Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Here was a musician who put his life on the line night after night. Took the knocks and came back for more. Stood up to everything he thought was wrong and never backed down. Spoke out and refused to be silenced. Made us dance and kept the corrupt on their toes. Throughout a career that began with the London jazz scene and the uptown Nigerian music highlife in the 1950s, peaked with the devoutly oppositional Afrobeat in the 1970s, and inspired countless artists ever since, Kuti lived out the warcry “music is the weapon” like no other musician.

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