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The contemporary End SARS protests across Lagos come more than four decades after Fela Kuti’s Zombie album launched its musical uprising against the methods of the Nigerian militia, who responded by raiding his Kalakuta compound, burning down his studio and throwing his 77-year old mother out of a third-story window. They come four decades after Fela married 27 women on the same day, either for misogyny’s sake or to delegitimize the government’s claims that he’d kidnapped his backing b...

okayafrica Photo: Sean Thomas. Listen to Femi Kutis New Song As We Struggle Everyday Femi explains: "As We Struggle Everyday is about how hard people work everyday to make ends meet and still go to vote corrupt politicians into power who are meant to be in jail." Femi Kutishares his new single, "As We Struggle Everyday," the latest drop from the upcoming double album Legacy +, a joint endeavor with his son Made Kuti. "As We Struggle Everyday" is a politically-charged afrobeat ...

1 of 13 Northern Berkshire Community Coalition volunteer Alex Daugherty checks in a bag of donated goods as part of this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Monday at the UNO Center in North Adams. Donations of nonperishable food and other items are collected for Northern Berkshire Community Coalition as part of scaled back events to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service in front the First Congregational Church in Williamstown. Monday, Januar...

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...