YK at 60: Salute to the heartbeat of Afrobeat, By Lanre Arogundade
If Femi is the king of Afrobeat, Seun, the crown prince, and Made, the heir apparent, then Yeni is the undisputed queen mother.
…if we speak of the Kuti family in terms of the unity of love that binds them today, despite tensions of the past, the ultimate credit must go to Yeni. Her deeper insights and perceptiveness that no sacrifice was too small or too big to sustain the radical Kuti legacy in general and Fela’s revolutionary one in particular, have been the magic wand.
It was as if even in the thick of battle, the Comrade was hit by something that felt like a thunderbolt. The type described in Mario Puzzo’s epic film,