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YK @ 60: Salute to the Heartbeat of Afrobeat


Lanre Arogundade
It was as if even in the thick of battle the Comrade was hit by something that felt like a thunderbolt. The type described in Mario Puzzo’s epic film – ‘The God Father’ – when on the instructions of Vito Corleone, the Don himself, his youngest son Michael, relocated to the Corleones’ native Sicily after he had taken deadly revenge on a New York police officer.
Michael had while roaming the rocky fields of Sicily in the company of his bodyguard come across a beauty named Appolonia in an environment full of flourishing flowers.
The guard was soon to lead Michael to the father of the angelic creature to let him know that the exiling Corleone had been attracted to her daughter. “Our friend has been hit by the thunderbolt”, he announced playfully. ....

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YK at 60: Salute to the heartbeat of Afrobeat, By Lanre Arogundade


YK at 60: Salute to the heartbeat of Afrobeat, By Lanre Arogundade 
If Femi is the king of Afrobeat, Seun, the crown prince, and Made, the heir apparent, then Yeni is the undisputed queen mother.
…if we speak of the Kuti family in terms of the unity of love that binds them today, despite tensions of the past, the ultimate credit must go to Yeni. Her deeper insights and perceptiveness that no sacrifice was too small or too big to sustain the radical Kuti legacy in general and Fela’s revolutionary one in particular, have been the magic wand.
It was as if even in the thick of battle, the Comrade was hit by something that felt like a thunderbolt. The type described in Mario Puzzo’s epic film, ....

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