Arts + Culture
One Letter, Forty Years Apart: Afrobeat vs Afrobeats in 12 Facts
Afrobeat vs Afrobeats explained: how Fela Kuti named his sound in Accra, why a London DJ added the…
Fela Kuti
Arts + Culture
Every October, Lagos throws Fela a birthday party that lasts a week. The New Afrika Shrine and Felabration
Fela Kuti was born on 15 October 1938. Every October, the New Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, opened by…
Arts + Culture
A thousand soldiers, a burning house and a mother thrown from a window: the Kalakuta raid that shaped Fela
On 18 February 1977, about 1,000 soldiers stormed Fela Kuti's Lagos compound, burned it and threw his 77-year-old…