How do elements of Fela Kuti’s music get reproduced by today’s pop musicians?
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Victor Abimbola Olaiya took up highlife music in the late 1950s and combined it with the trumpet to improve on its texture and aesthetic quality.
Cultural icons like Achebe, Fela and Saro-Wiwa were among those who highlighted Nigeria’s failings.
Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti used his music as an art form that provoked. This wasn’t only through politics, but also sex.
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Research Fellow, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of Minnesota
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Visiting professor, Rhodes University
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Lecturer, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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University of Lagos
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Chair of the Journalism Department, Texas Christian University
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Lecturer in Music, University of Nigeria
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Associate research scientist, Universidade de Lisboa
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Reader, Development Economics in Africa and Director, African Leadership Centre, King's College London
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Five College Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College and the Five College Consortium (Amherst, Hampshire, Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst), USA., Mount Holyoke College
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Visiting Fellow, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Fine Arts, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Unizik Business School, Nnamdi Azikiwe University