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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 band and dancers, depending on which sources you read. A life’s worth of rebellion assembles this k...

okayafrica Photo: Sean Thomas. Listen to Femi Kuti's 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 tune about people having the voting power to hold their 'leaders' accountable, but often failin...

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, January 18, 2021. Volunteer Jennifer Ceolinski of Williams oversaw the donations from 10 a.m. to noon. Don...

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 Republic. They brutally beat Kuti, burned his home and studio to the ground and threw his mother Fu...