Did you Know Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì was a veteran Nigerian musician, bandleader, composer, political activist, and a Pan-Africanist…

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Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì

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Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì was a veteran Nigerian musician, bandleader, composer, political activist and a Pan-Africanist.

He was on record to be the pioneer and the King of Afrobeat. A genre of music that incorporates West African music with African-American funk and jazz.

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He was a non-conformist, unconventional, dissent, and an outspoken critic and target of Nigeria’s military regime.

Kuti attended Trinity College of Music in London, where he formed the band Koola Lobitos in 1969, and took the band to the United States, where he discovered the Black Power movement, which heavily influenced his music and political ideology.

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He was regarded as one of Africa’s most charismatic music performers of all time.

It’s believed, he wedded 27 women on the same day,  took all of them to Ghana for his honeymoon, and later divorced all of them on the ground that, they were all jealous.

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