Today Is Fela Kuti birthday, if was alive would be 77. born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, In Abeokuta, Ogun State 15 October - and Died 1938 / 2 August 1997, also known as Fela Anikulapo Kuti or simply Fela, was a multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick from Nigeria.
what i inspire me in Fela is how lucid was, as artist how he used his art and creativity as tool to denounce injustice, inequality, racial discrimination, the way he shared as much he could of how can we find solution for better world particularly for African continent, as Mozambican, i feel identified with majority of things that he was against and ways to find solution.
My fav Fela Music Theme
" Water No get Enemy"
Although he was not That Lord God person, he also did wrong things, but if we focus in observe his positive action and implement is very good, the great example is his music, now is worldwide phenomenon Felabration, other is his words use art as a tool for positive change that we want to see in this world.
check bellow in this Video Fela talking about on Colonial mentality
Oct2015
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