Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti , also known as Fela Anikulapo Kuti or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multiinstrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick.

Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun RansomeKuti onOctober 1938 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria into an uppermiddleclass family. His mother, Funmilayo RansomeKuti, was a feminist activist in the anticolonial movement his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun RansomeKuti, an Anglican minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers. His brothers, Beko RansomeKuti and Olikoye RansomeKuti, both medical doctors, are well known in Nigeria. Fela is a first cousin to the Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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