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Fela Kuti

10 months

Box Set #6 curated by @idriselba is out now!🕺🏾 Featuring Fela classics, Open & Close, Music of Many Colours, Stalemate, I Go Shout Plenty!!!, Live in Amsterdam & Opposite People, you can buy the Box Set now:

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

Greatest Of All Time 🐐

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4 years

Today, in 1938, a legend was born. Happy Birthday Fela! To everyone celebrating #Felabration this week, comment your favourite Fela song below.

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2 years

Focused on the music 🎷

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3 years

⭐️ African Star ⭐️

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3 years

Just Fela catching a vibe 🕺🏿

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

“I’ve suffered quite a lot, to the point where I’ve experienced death. Years before I was fit to die, but I understand life better now. Death is nice, death is beauty.” Today marks the 84th birthday of our legend and pioneer. Fela Anikulapo Kuti 🖤

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4 years

Thanks for all the support in 2020. Happy Holidays and see you in 2021! 📸 by Bernard Matussiere

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2 years

🖤🎙️🖤

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

#voteforfela

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3 years

Last chance to help induct baba Fela into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! #voteforfela at

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Fela Kuti

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5 years

22 years gone and we're still inspired everyday!

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7 years

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2 years

Fela with his 20-member Afrika 70 band performing “Power Show” in 1978 🎷

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

It’s that time of year again🎄Happy Holidays! ♥️

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Fela’s death. Once the king, always the king 👑 Photo by Pierre Terrasson

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2 years

Black History month ✊🏿 Fela Kuti is a name that will be celebrated and adored for years to come. His impact in music has transcended generations and his devotion to building a better world for Africans makes him a timeless hero to many of us. Long live The Black President 🖤🌍

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

On this day in 1977...

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4 years

The Kuti Estate strongly supports the #EndPoliceBrutality movement and stands in solidarity with the protesters. Fela spent his life standing up to unwarranted violence from the police and military, and would be outraged to see the cycle continuing today. The struggle must STOP!

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2 years

A fan jumping through the window of Fela’s home in Nigeria (taken from National Geographic, March 1979) Photo by Bruno Barbey

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

26 years ago today, Fela Kuti left this world. He will always be remembered👑 Photo by Leni Sinclair

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

Happy #Felabration week! Who's ready? Tune-in here:

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

“When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don’t believe in hating people. It’s a retrogressive thing.”

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Fela Kuti

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6 years

Today marks what would have been Fela Anikulapo Kuti's 80th birthday! Happy Birthday to a true legend. Everybody say Yeah Yeah!!!

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

The iconic New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, Nigeria will be opening its live-streaming platform this Easter with outstanding performances from @heisrema , @official2baba and @StayCavy . Visit for more information.

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Fela Kuti

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11 months

The inventor of Afrobeat 🎶

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Fela Kuti

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6 years

Boss man #tbt

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Fela Kuti

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10 months

"I don't sing politics, I only talk about the truth."

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

The legend 🙌🏾

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

Music is the weapon 🎷✊🏿

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

The face of a man who means business 🤌🏿

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Fela Kuti

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9 months

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year🕺🏾

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Fela Kuti

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9 months

Happy Holidays🎄

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

Happy Birthday to the Greatest to ever do it. The King of Afrobeat. The Black President! Baba Fela Kuti 🇳🇬 ✊🏿

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

In September 1984 Fela was convicted of currency smuggling. In court, Fela explains that he declared the cash, but the police claimed otherwise. Despite constant struggles with authority these shots from his release in ‘86 depict the vibrant and resiliant character that Fela was!

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Fela Kuti

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8 months

An outtake of Fela performing "I.T.T." in 1982 for the Music Is The Weapon documentary.

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

It’s 4/20! 🍁🍃💨 Fela 4/20 t-shirts are now available in store for purchase. Celebrate today with a new edit of Excuse-O available to stream now.

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

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Fela Kuti

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5 years

Today, in 1938, a legend was born. Happy birthday Fela Anikulapo Kuti! And happy #Felabration month 🎉 #YeahYeah

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

“Music must awaken people to do their duties as citizens and act” ✊🏿

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

"..I tell them they will hear more, until they can hear no more... because the truth can never die"

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

AFRODISIAC - another classic Fela Kuti record has reached its 50th anniversary 🎊 To celebrate, we are re-issuing the record, pressed on double red & green vinyl. To accompany the re-issue, “Alu Jon Jonki Jon” is now available to stream digitally

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

“I realized that you cannot think European and want to write or create something African. You have to think African in everything." 🌍 📸 Godwin Usidamen

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

Doing what he does best 🎤🎶

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

Made Kuti ( @madeakuti ) - Femi's son and Fela's grandson - has a new song out today! Everybody listen to "Free Your Mind." #legacy

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Fela Kuti

@felakuti

2 years

What is your destiny?

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Fela Kuti

@felakuti

2 years

Taken from the Music is the Weapon documentary (1982)

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Fela Kuti

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11 months

Courage. Integrity. Talent. Documentary out on Fela's YouTube now 🎥

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

#voteforfela every day until April 30th! #yeahyeah

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

Taken from the Finding Fela documentary - a young Fela in his element! 🎤 Do you have any momories/stories of a Fela performance?

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

Don’t forget to #voteforfela daily until May 7 for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 🎷

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Fela Kuti

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11 months

Fela Anikulapo Kuti 🇳🇬

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

#voteforfela

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Fela Kuti

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11 months

“Fela’s style of dress never changed, the only thing that changed about it was… him bringing Africa forward as a fashion statement” 🌍

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Fela Kuti

@felakuti

3 years

In celebration of Black History Month, we would like to highlight the magnificant Kalakuta Queens who stood by Baba Fela through the good times and the bad 👑🖤

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

Fela in his hotel room before his Paris show 🇫🇷

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

🎊 Happy New Year 🎊

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

“I don’t treat women as objects to be used. I just don’t agree to possess a woman” 🖤👑

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

A new short documentary, 'Fela Kuti: The Legacy', is out on @youtube now👑

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

Moving to the rhythm of the beat 🎹🎶

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

The 50th anniversary of AFRODISIAC is now available for purchase, pressed on double red and green vinyl ❤️💚

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3 years

Fela performing at the Brixton academy, London, 1983. Shot by David Corio 📸

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

Blurry Shrine nights 💃🏿🇳🇬🕺🏾

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

Happy #InternationalWomensDay 📸 of Fela and the Kalakuta Queens taken by Daniel Laine

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat—the new documentary—is now available to watch in the UK via @BBCiPlayer .

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Fela Kuti

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6 years

Ultimate legend.

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2 years

🙏🏿

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

Fela operated without sponsorship from the political/business community or traditional rulers, all of whom would have expected songs praising their products and policies. All his peers of the time either received or aspired to such sponsorship. Fela wanted none of it ✊🏿

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

Fela and the Africa 70 perform for a crowd with a strong message: The Struggle Must Stop! ✊🏿🖤

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Fela Kuti

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6 years

> @Beyonce ’s band performed a rendition of the 1976 track, "Zombie,” during her legendary set at @coachella last night. #yeahyeah #felaliveson

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

A side to Fela less talked about is his unique fashion sense. His style was very much a conscious effort to contradict Western ideals of what a man should wear, as well as a way of expressing his boldness and charisma 🕺🏾

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

Saturday, 9:30pm GMT on @BBCTwo .

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Fela Kuti

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10 months

Fela Kuti's Box Set #6 curated by @idriselba will be out next Friday December 1st 🙌🏾 Pre-order now:

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

Bringing the energy 🕺🏾

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Fela Kuti

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5 months

"I smoke igbo to make me forget, I forget all my problems. For those few hours, I forget all my problems." - Fela Kuti 💚 Happy 420 😮‍💨 Take 20% off on store all day tomorrow with the code FELA420:

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

Happy Birthday to Femi, Fela’s eldest son! 🎷

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

Music is a spiritual thing... 2 days left to #voteforfela

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

Today a new edit of Ariya, taken from Roforofo Fight, is available to stream digitally everywhere 🔊 Don’t forget, the re-issue of Roforofo Fight is available to buy now, celebrating the records 50th Anniversary 🎊

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

Fela performing ‘Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense’ at Glastonbury Festival in 1984. Watch here: #Glastonbury2020

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

The wait is over: Fela Kuti Box Set #5 will be out December 10th and is available for pre-order today. The latest installment of vinyl re-issues was co-curated by Fela’s son, @Femiakuti , and Chris Martin ( @coldplay ).

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

The 50th anniversary reissue of Roforofo Fight is available for pre-order in the Fela store! Shop the vinyl reissue and the Roforofo T-shirt at

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

☮️🖤🌍

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Fela Kuti

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2 years

FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI: RÉBELLION AFROBEAT, an exhibition dedicated to Fela Kuti's memory, is taking place at La Cité de la Musique from Oct 20, ‘22, until June 11, ‘23. The exhibition presents shimmering original costumes, unpublished photographs, archives and more 🖤 @philharmonie

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Fela Kuti

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5 years

Fela with Grace Jones, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring, photo by Andy Warhol. — from the forthcoming book ‘Warhol on Basquiat. Andy Warhol's Words and Pictures’ edited by Michael Dayton Hermann and Reuel Golden (Taschen, 2019).

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Fela Kuti

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5 years

Congratulations Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua on last night’s win! Name that Fela song... #AnthonyJoshua

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

🎶 Shakara oloje ni 🎶 New edit out today. Listen:

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

Captured in his element, Fela takes the stage 🎷

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Fela Kuti

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6 years

In 1977, Fela released the single ‘Fear Not For Man,’ quoting Ghanaian politician and revolutionary Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in the intro: "The secret of life is to have no fear."

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

Be your true authentic self ✊🏿

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

RIP to the late great Tony Allen, legendary drummer. Allen joined the Fela Ransome-Kuti Quintet in 1964 and was the anchor of Fela’s bands for fourteen years, from Koola Loobitos to Nigeria 70 to Africa 70 to Afrika 70. Read more here:

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Fela Kuti

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1 year

The infamous "Afrobus" used by Fela for some of his extensive touring around Nigeria 🧡

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Fela Kuti

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7 years

Today marks the start of #Felabration . Join us in celebrating the life and legacy of Fela Kuti all throughout the month of October.

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Fela Kuti

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3 years

THE BLACK PRESIDENT ✊🏾

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Fela Kuti

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5 years

Rest In Power Ginger Baker. Our thoughts go out to his loved ones. ✊🏿❤️

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Fela Kuti

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6 years

Fela + #gingerbaker

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Fela Kuti

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4 years

Thank you to everyone who tuned into Day 1 of #Felabration yesterday! Those performances will be available on Fela's YouTube channel this weekend. Day 2 of Felabration features performances by WurlD, Bez Idakula, Perruzi, Falana. #yeahyeah !

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