Few cultural figures have loomed as large over Africa’s political and artistic imagination as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Decades after his death, Fela remains less a memory than a presence–felt in protest chants, sampled in global music, and echoed in every fearless confrontation with power. His legacy is not merely about sound; it is about courage, resistance and an uncompromising belief that art must speak truth to authority.
Fela did not invent Afrobeat alone, but he weaponised it. Through long, hypnotic compositions driven by polyrhythms…
