Afrobeat singer and bandleader Seun Kuti was a little offended when Miami New Times asked if it was hard taking over his famous father Fela Kuti's band Egypt 80. "I think that is a story by the ...

Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti speaks on the foundation of Afrobeats Femi Kuti disputes claims that Tony Allen co-created Afrobeat with Fela According to Grammy-nominated Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti ...

Afrobeat singer Femi Kuti has disputed claims that Tony Allen co-pioneered Afrobeats with his father Fela Kuti. According to Femi, in a video, Fela was a multi-instrumentalist and composer who ...

Femi Kuti, a multiple Grammy-nominated artist and son of late Afrobeats’ pioneer, Fela Kuti, has refuted the claims that the late legendary drummer, Tony Allen co-pioneered the genre with his ...

LAGOS — Sat comfortably in a large chair at the New Afrika Shrine, his family's legendary Nigerian music venue, Femi Kuti was surrounded by history. The concert hall is an homage to his father Fela ...

Annual week long Felebration highliting the legacy of musical revolutionary Fela Kuti kicked off on Monday 14 in Lagos. Nigeria's biggest city will dance on Fela Kuti's music all week long.

"Fela is the greatest," proclaimed DJ Emmanuel Dre, 24, while 52-year-old journalist Jesukri Imoni hailed Kuti "the man who stood for Africans". Fela Kuti was a musical revolutionary and staunch ...

Nigerian singer Portable claims that activist and singer Fela Kuti would have lived longer if he minded his business. Portable Controversial Nigerian singer Portable has rocked the boat with his ...

Indeed, a lion cannot birth a goat. Fela comes from a lineage of activists and musicians. His mother Chief Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a human rights activist, nationalist and feminist.

Seun Kuti, one of the sons of Afrobeats icon, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has shared a startling revelation about an alleged scheme by late politician MKO Abiola and his wife, Simbiat Abiola, to ...

At least a million mourners turned up for the funeral of Nigerian musician, and voice of the downtrodden, Fela Kuti, his manager Rikki Stein remembers. “The road was filled with people as far as ...