If the Afrobeat icon, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, had rendered a welcome tune for the embattled regional leaders as they met in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, it would have been his famous “Confusion Break Bone.”
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He said most of those who criticise public figures, including his late dad, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, did so out of ignorance.
The boast was contained in a video that has gone viral by the son of late music legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
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The annual festival created to celebrate the Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti kicked off on the 29th of September, 2022. The festival will consist of musical concerts, Senior Secondary Schools Debate, The Symposium, Arts and Afrobics Dance Competition, Documentaries, Felamantrics, Dress Fela Competition, Fela Week Partners, Stage Plays and a host of other exciting activities.
The son of prominent Afro beat singer, late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, made this known on his social media handles.
Onyekachi Nwanya, Head, Social Media for Felebration Artwork Competition, made this known in Lagos on Thursday.
According to the award winning singer son of late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, everything in Nigeria now is centred around sex.
Kuti said he didn’t want to be buried with a loud ceremony but prefers cremation and a close-knit burial ceremony.
The team’s outstanding performance at the competition won it the cash prize of N1 million as it defeated 10 other contestants.
As a way of reviving the entertainment scene in Lagos State while also strategically showcasing the State as the soul of entertainment of Nigeria, the State’s Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture is set to celebrate Nigeria’s Independence with the “Eko on Show” festival slated for Friday, 15th October, 2021 at Muri-Okunola Park, Victoria Island.
Celebrated annually by corporate organizations, CSW is a global initiative that starts from Monday 4 to Friday 8 to celebrate customer service and the people who serve and support them daily.
Felabration, which holds yearly from October 11 to 17 at the New Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos, was conceived in 1998.
By obstinately demanding for the Golden Stool, which was the symbol of the Ashanti nation, Hogston didn’t know that he was, apologies to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, provoking an uprising, which would “bring out the beast” in the Ashanti people.
Morayo Brown, the host of the show, presented the car to the excited 60-year-old, telling her the vehicle had been fully paid for.
Sharing a photo of herself a day ago, she wrote;
Back in February, the Nigerian icon was announced as one of the nominees alongside other veteran stars such as Mary J. Blige, Kate Bush, Devo, Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden, Jay-Z, Chaka Khan, Carole King, LL Cool J, New York Dolls, Rage Against the Machine, Todd Rundgren, Tina Turner and Dionne Warwick.
The APC on Tuesday May 4, shared photos of campaign shirts which had inscriptions that read “To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it… Fela Kuti.”
Whenever the west cites the 64 AD example of Nero fiddling while Rome was burning, Nigeria goes into historical kitty to flaunt hers. The fiddling Nero is a classical example of governmental neglect of duty and focus on frivolities. Or trivialities. Nigeria’s own Nero is the story of the first and only Prime Minister in the history of Nigeria, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
“Woke” is derived from African American Vernacular English to describe the first waking to social consciousness. In Nigeria, it is vernacularised as Soro Soke – speak up! Leftist academics, journalists, mass media talking heads, activists and other potential resistors against oppression are all wokerist combatants.