Hundreds jammed into an all-night concert hall in Nigeria's commercial hub Lagos for a festival celebrating the legacy of musical revolutionary Fela Kuti and his political activism. Kuti ...

In the 1960s, Nigerian drummer Tony Allen joined a band formed by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti. Together, the pair created Afrobeat: drawing on jazz and highlife styles ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – In the Fela Kuti documentary “Music is the Weapon,” the godfather of afrobeat music and Nigerian activist declared “music is the weapon of the future.” Speaking with ...