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The contemporary End SARS protests across Lagos come more than four decades after Fela Kuti’s Zombie album launched its musical uprising against the methods of the Nigerian militia, who responded by raiding his Kalakuta compound, burning down his studio and throwing his 77-year old mother out of a third-story window. They come four decades after Fela married 27 women on the same day, either for misogyny’s sake or to delegitimize the government’s claims that he’d kidnapped his backing band and dancers, depending on which sources you read. A life’s worth of rebellion assembles this kind of political nuance to a man whose influence seeps through Afrobeat and into the fabric of a country’s resistance. ....
Femi And Made Kuti: Legacy + (Partisan Records) Fela Kuti’s son and grandson keep the Afrobeat banner flying high, tradition meets innovation as two generations come together The legacy of late great Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti continues to grow. Afrobeat, the sprawling, groove-heavy fusion of superheavy James Brown funk, Afro-Cuban jazz and traditional Yoruba music that Fela developed alongside drum legend Tony Allen (RIP), is mutating and spreading thanks to open-minded music fans and the African diaspora. But while the poppier Afrobeat genre takes over the world’s charts, Fela’s musician sons honour the classic Afrobeat sound with their own takes on the formula. This two-LP collaboration combines eldest son Femi’s eleventh studio album, the classic-sounding ....