Fela Anikulapo Kuti is the revered musical icon and activist whose music and lifestyle continues to inspire many youths, especially musicians who look up to him for what he represented when he was alive.
READ: August 2 1997: The Day Fela Anikulapo Kuti Left Us For Immortality
Fela created the genre Afrobeat which he used to pass his message of activism and disdain for the Nigerian government, a move which made him to always be on the bad side of the government, costing him multiple years of detention in prison as well as put his family at risk. For all that reason, his family guards their father’s values and works and jealousy.
Seun Kuti, one the songs of Fela has come out to clarify that in as much as many people want to identify with what Fela did in his lifetime, most of the sufferings the late icon passed through, he did with members of his family. He recalled how government agents visited their home when he was nine, killing one of Fela’s boys unprovoked. He narrated the sufferings his stepmother who broke her neck from the attack on them by soldiers. He also revealed that his mother had a broken bayonet stitched into her and couldn’t walk for 18months.
This is coming days after he slammed American rapper, Kanye West, who said the spirits of Fela, Bob Marley and 2Pac were flowing in him and likened himself to late iconic musicians. Seun warned the G.O.O.D Music boss to keep Fela’s name off his mouth as he was nothing like his father..
See his latest post below: