Jon Jonki News Today

Why Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat is still shaking the planet A new BBC documentary pays tribute to the remarkable life of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musical rebel who gave birth to Afrobeat. Kevin EG Perry talks to Kuti’s son Femi and grandson Made about their mission to continue the family’s radical legacy. On 18 February 1977 a thousand soldiers from the Nigerian army stormed a communal compound in Lagos that outlaw bandleader Fela Kuti had declared his own independent state: the Kalakuta...