A worthy recognition for an equally worthy legend
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was honoured with the first Lifetime Achievement Award to an African musician at the 68th Grammy Award in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Fela died in August 1997, and, for this honour to be given by the Recording Academy of the United States to someone globally admired as the ‘father’ of the now- blossoming and influential Afrobeat Music is profoundly significant, not just for the optics of it but for its socio-historical, economic and political…
