Felabration2017: Late Nigerian legendary musician, Fela is being celebrated worldwide today

Fela Anikulapo Kuti is being celebrated today, 20 years after his death.

He was born 15 October 1938 in Abeokuta, Nigeria and died 2nd August 1997 in Lagos Nigeria, at the aged of 58.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela Kuti and simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick. He has been called "superstar, singer, musician, Panafricanist, polygamist, mystic, legend." During the height of his popularity, he was often hailed as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers."

Fela with his first wife Remilekun, his mother Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti (middle) and his three oldest children Yeni, Femi and Sola.

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