CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: Fela’s heroes
MANY people adopted the music genius as their hero, but the colossus himself had a lot of renowned achievers …
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CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: ‘My mother must see a doctor,’ Fela’s daughter
MOTUNRAYO, Fela’s 14 year-old daughter wants her mother to see a doctor. She said: “We can’t take chances, I’ll …
CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: ‘I’m already packing’ –Dancer
UCHE Nwachukwu, a dancer with the Egypt ’80 band who resides at Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Gbemisola street, Ikeja home, said …
CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: Fela’s foreign musical adventures, plus his most successful band boys
UNKNOWN to many, the late world king of Afro music genre, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti had his first foreign musical tour …
CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: ‘ ‘Eve of death, Fela is alive’ – Femi insists
BARELY 24 hours before the death of Fela, on Friday, August 1, 1997, at Motherlan’, where Femi Auikulapo Kuti …
CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: ‘Fela promised he’d not die,’ says daughter
SHALEWA Anikulapo-Kuti is yet to come to terms with the shocking death of her dad via AIDS. “I can’t …
CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: Fela an icon -Gbadamosi, others react
RENOWNED playwright and vice chairman of Music Society of Nigeria, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi, has described the late Afro music …
CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: ‘Please, don’t tell Beko,’ Dolu pleads
IN a reaction to the death of her younger brother, Fela AnikuIapo-Kuti, on Saturday, August 2, 1997, the …
CELEBRATING FELA 20 YEARS AFTER: Fela ignored AIDS
THROUGHOUT the last years of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, he acted as if the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (which still has …
Celebrating Fela 20 years after: Fela’s big band
THE orchestra of “Abami Eda”, criticised by promoters for being too large was awesome. At every point in time …
Celebrating Fela 20 years after: Memorable quotes of the maestro
“WE are building a monster society,” on Giwa’s death (as quoted in Daily Times of October 24, 1984). …
Celebrating Fela 20 years after: Fela’s litany of charges and accusations
THE President of Kalakuta Republic and Chief Priest of Afrika Shrine, Fela has been accused of almost all the …
Celebrating Fela 20 years after: Where he died
THE last two weeks of Fela’s life was spent in opulence at the luxurious Victoria Island Consultancy and Hospital …
Celebrating Fela 20 years after: How Fela’s fortune dwindled
THE regime of General Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-1979) single-handedly ruined Fela materially. The invasion of his Kalakuta Republic, at Moshalashi, …
Celebrating Fela 20 years after: Intimate details of death – By Olikoye and Femi
As the news of Fela’s death broke on public radio and television, panic, anxiety and suspicion reigned. Is he …
Celebrating Fela 20 years after: Olufela Anikulapo-Kuti (1938-1997)
The death of a legend like the king of classical African music and one of the 100 people that …
