A new podcast will explore the life and music of Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. Jad Abumrad who created Radiolab as well as Dolly Parton’s America will host the show. Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, ...

At the age of 58, late Afro Beat icon, Fela Anikulapo Kuti had been arrested 200 times, contested for presidency and had married 27 women on the same day but to his manager, Rikki Stein, he remained ...

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The icon's colorful life and inspiring career is the focus of a new podcast series Fela Kuti: Fear No Man created by ...

Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti is a global icon whose legacy extends beyond music In a recent interview on the Tea By Tae Podcast, Grammy-nominated Afrobeat star Made Kuti stated that his grandfather, ...

Grammy-nominated artist Femi Kuti has clarified that the musical works of his late father, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, remain the exclusive property of the Kuti family.Femi made this ...

In what proved to be his last major interview, in December 1996, Afrobeat pioneer and music idol Fela Anikulapo Kuti, known mononymously as Fela, claimed to be “a very important god.” It was a ...

Central to that decision is Yeni Kuti, whom Femi described as the custodian of their father’s legacy. “She’s like the main ...

Additional reporting and research from John Kennedy. Sometimes serendipity looks just like an empty bank account. At least it did for Fela Kuti. Following a series of self-funded U.S. shows with his ...

Over the weekend, Nigerian music legend Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. In recognition of this honor, KCRW and Talkhouse welcomed Fela's ...

The seeming uproar over the comparison between the late Afrobeat progenitor, Olufela Anikulapo Kuti, and successful Afrobeats poster boy, Wizkid, in recent times has been likened to a storm in a ...