Discography of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has died of AIDS-related reasons and heart failure. According to the article by Chido Nwangwu in USAfrica ONLINE, he died on Saturday August 2, 1997 after several weeks of illness at the age of 58. "The immediate cause of death of Fela was heart failure but there were many complications... >>read more
Ntama: Online Journal for African Music and Popular Culture: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti:
The late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian composer, musician, singer, bandleader and above all political activist took up the term Second Slavery to emphasize the situation present day musicians in Africa - and I am sure not only in Africa - are in. In this... >>read more
Africaman Original,
by Carter Van Pelt: Fela Anikulapo Kuti: A leaden cloud crept over Africa on August 2nd, 1997. Tears flowed from eyes in Nigeria, in Africa, and all over the world. Hearts became heavier. Many wished it hadn't happened. Some accepted it as part of a divine order. Anyone who was conscious of it at all recognized it as... >>read more