As New Orleans heads into the Carnival season, local venues provide the soundtrack for the season.

Hundreds jammed into an all-night concert hall in Nigeria's commercial hub Lagos for a festival celebrating the legacy of musical revolutionary Fela Kuti and his political activism. Kuti ...

Among its prominent voices, "The Odyssey" features Seun Kuti, the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, who leads his ...

Played by Michelle Williams in Fela!, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti’s muse, L.A. activist Sandra Izsadore, has her say. Played by Michelle Williams in Fela!, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti’s muse ...

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But life with Fela was anything but quiet,” Yeni reflected. Femi Kuti, the couple’s first son, added that the book sheds light on Fela’s relentless pursuit of justice and his revolutionary ...

Denise Trucello Today, the Recording Academy carries on its tradition of enshrining the most impactful and enduring ...

particularly in the figure of Kuti’s passionate, controversial father, Fela Kuti. Femi himself started out in the early 1980s as a member of his late father’s band Egypt 80 and has stuck ...

Yeni Kuti, singer and daughter of the late Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, has reacted to actress Ngozi Ezeonu’s comments on inappropriate dressing at auditions, urging the actress to reconsider her ...

Renowned Afrobeat family of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti recently in Lagos, launched the biography of their mother, Remilekun Anikulapo-Kuti titled: “Mrs Kuti” (a memoir) to the world. The book is a ...

depicting a journey to the promised land set to Duke Ellington’s classic “Come Sunday,” Peven Everett’s hit “Gabriel,” and the pulse of Fela Kuti’s Afro-Pop. Stories by Paris Wolfe I ...

This comes despite the warnings from Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti in his satirical Afrobeat song Yellow Fever, where, he criticised the widespread practice of skin bleaching; “You dey bleach ...