Yes, I have always been a passionate advocate for women. I am the founder of the Uncommon Woman Movement - an online platform ...

The Fela Kuti song “2000 Blacks Got to Be Free ... The seeds of our culture don’t have a choice but to bleed through because they live in us. Tradition exists within your being.” ...

Their live performances left audiences in awe the ... Without Osibisa, Osei said, there would have been no Fela Kuti, widely regarded as the godfather of Afrobeat. His contributions served as ...

You have some performances coming up where people can actually come see you live. Talk about this ... So I don't have a Fela Kuti record or a number of Fela Kuti records because that was ...

Fela Kuti, the pioneer of the jazz and African music ... These talks draw good crowds, Gaskill said, as do the concerts put on by the center’s amateur musicians under Cee’s tutelage.

“We were both volunteering for the Thursday night community meals, and when I got there, there was music playing—I think it was Fela Kuti,” Pompeii ... and they put on a concert event ...

Stephen Cee goes by the name Cee Major, and there couldn’t be a more fitting handle for a man whose life since early childhood has been a musical one. People call him Cee, for short, and in his dress ...

A new documentary on Afrobeats, Nigerian Yoruba music, and politics will look at a century of fuji, juju, apala, sakara, highlife and more ...

Sometimes there is a mystique about Lagos that is hard to see, for people who live in the city itself ... became an opening act to warm up the audience. And Fela Anikulapo Kuti became the closing act ...

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 ...

When Emmylou Harris released “Wrecking Ball” in 1995, the album earned acclaim as a departure for the country-folk star.