I have carefully avoided mentioning any Nigerian musician in the same sentence with Fela’s name. It is deliberate. I cannot, in good conscience, insert the name of any Nigerian or African musician alongside Fela’s name. Doing so is tantamount to blasphemy and further desecrates the name Fela Kuti. Anyone comparing Fela Kuti with any Nigerian or African musician, dead or alive, commits sacrilege and profanes the African cultural canvas which inspired Afrobeat as a music genre.
By Promise Adiele
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