Listen to the Master: Fela Kuti

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Listen to the Master: a compilation of Afrobeat’s Maverick founder Fela Kuti in 2013 on a carefully curated collection of seminal Classics, “The Best Of The Black President 2“.

Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti passed away in 1997, but his legacy lives on, thanks to his still relevant, forthright political views and powerful […]

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"#FelaKuti is the first African artist to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame"
April 15, #2026
By #IanBrennan / #NPR

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Fela Kuti – Coffin For Head of State

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One of Fela‘s responses to the Nigerian Army’s destruction of his Kalakuta Republic compound in February 1977, where his mother suffered lasting trauma, listen to “Coffin For Head of State” released in 1980.

After the sacking and burning of Fela’s Kalakuta Republic in 1977, Fela wrote several musical responses attacking the culpable Nigerian government, including [...]

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Fela Kuti – Unknown Soldier

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One of Fela’s response-pieces over the events of the infamous Kalakuta Republic raid in 1977, “Unknown Soldier (Parts 1&2)” is Fela’s vivid and chilling description of the events which took place that day.

Reports came days after the invasion that the works of “unknown soldiers” were responsible for the raping, beating and torturing those on […]

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