A scholar of the musician who was also his pupil weighs up his considerable influence.
Articles on Fela Kuti
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Fela Kuti’s legacy plays out in music, in politics and even in food, with Nigerian restaurants paying homage to him on their menus.
Stein’s memoir Moving Music is as colourful and compelling as the famous artists he toured with.
Fela Kuti created his own myth, and his fans did the rest. Today his music and politics are as relevant as they were before his death in 1997.
Nigeria’s Afrobeats stars love to identify with Fela’s activism and music - but their tributes are becoming opportunistic and empty.
With his new album Love, Damini he has conquered the world. But how much of his creative soul does he have left?
Afrofusion is a music style that existed even before Burna Boy was born.
Nigerian popular music - Afrobeats - is storming the world’s stages. But it’s just the latest stage in a vibrant century of recorded music in the country.
The man who taught Fela Kuti a thing or two has been all but erased from formal music history. He deserves much better treatment in death.
He played every venue that mattered, a global face of Afrobeat. Orlando Julius embodied the groove.
Of a record nine nominees, seven are from West Africa. The global rise of Afrobeats music owes its soul to Nigeria’s iconic star Fela Kuti.
Afrobeats emerged when West African pop music became cool. It has been boosted by the diaspora, big name collaborations and American culture.
Fela’s nomination and possible induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will come at a cost.
The truth remains that no artist through Nigeria’s postcolonial years has contributed close to what Fela did – and continues to do - for human rights and social justice.
Young Nigerians are protesting bad governance and police brutality. Where is the music to assist them?
How do elements of Fela Kuti’s music get reproduced by today’s pop musicians?
How do two artists from different ends of the world get inspired by the pioneer of Afrobeats?
Highlife champion Victor Olaiya will be missed for his affable personality and resplendent performance style.
The intertwining of the market, state and society has continued to see itself expressed through music in the DRC.
Music is an underutilised tool when it comes to steering curricula away from strictly Western and colonial models.
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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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Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, University of Minnesota
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Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship, Unizik Business School, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
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Lecturer in Music, University of Nigeria
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Associate professor Music and Media, University of Gloucestershire
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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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Musician, Academic, Consultant, University of Edinburgh
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University of Lagos
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Senior lecturer, University of Ghana
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Visiting professor, Rhodes University
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, Vassar College
