Amoeba Music

By Robert Leaver

As powerful and transcendent as the music of Fela Kuti was, it is often overshadowed by the complex grandiosity of his own life. A political radical who preached a pro-democratic and socialist African agenda, a convict, an exile, a womanizer, founder of the Movement of the People political party…Fela Kuti was all these things yet his legacy will always stand as that of a revolutionary. Often compared to his western counterpart, Bob Marley (as their careers are eerily similar) Fela mobilized Nigeria’s vast impoverished population into a political machine with an exceptionally loud voice. Musically, he revolutionized traditional African music (and the world’s perception of it) by singlehandedly... Read More

City Of Origin:

Abeokuta, Nigeria

Genre:

World

Birthdate:

10/15/1938

Death date:

08/02/1997