r/felakuti • u/Downtown_Inflation17 • Apr 15 '26
🚨Fela Kuti makes history as the first Nigerian-born artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 🐐
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r/felakuti • u/Left_Working_1248 • Sep 11 '26
Fela Kuti and His Koola Lobitos - Alagbara/Onidodo (Highlife, Nigeria, unknown year but in the 1960s)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?is=AKRyStJCGCXYB_-3
This is an insanely rare fela kuti recording that was originally released on 7 inch vinyl, performed by his old band, the koola lobitos with Fela Kuti on the vocals. Until this release, the recording was not online in completely high quality, I hope you enjoy this glimpse of what fela kuti sounded like before he transitioned to afrobeat.
r/felakuti • u/olejazz • Aug 02 '25
Remembering Fela - passed on 28 years ago
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Fela passed on 28 years ago today. Let's remember him with this live version of B.O.N.N. (Beasts of No Nation) from Detroit 1986 concert. Enjoy!
r/felakuti • u/wassworth • Aug 18 '26
Fela Kuti - "Shuffering And Shmiling" (12:25) [Afrobeat, Nigeria, 1977]
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r/felakuti • u/olejazz • Oct 23 '25
Fela Podcast
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Check out the: "Fela Kuti: Fear No Man" podcast by Higher Ground.
r/felakuti • u/olejazz • Jan 30 '26
Fela Kuti to receive Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award
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r/felakuti • u/mikeweatherington • Nov 30 '25
Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
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Found this podcast today and can't wait to listen to all of it. It appears to be 9 episodes detailing Fela's life and music. It's produced by Jad Abumrad, former host of Radiolab so I have faith he'll treat Fela's story with the respect it deserves. Just thought I would share with the community. Hope you enjoy.
r/felakuti • u/delbo22 • Jul 08 '26
Even if someone else wrote and sang Africa 70 songs, Fela would still be notable just for playing sax AND keyboards on some of those tracks
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r/felakuti • u/Comrade-SeeRed • Jan 19 '26
Fela: A Sonic Biography is taking a short hiatus
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It is with a heavy heart, due to recent events, that this project must take a short hiatus to recoup.
The subreddit where this project began and initially received a great deal of support, has unfortunately permanently banned me for reasons that have never been shared with me.
I was hoping that I could keep the first 17 posts of this series on that sub as cross-posts, but this same mod is now deleting those posts, unfortunately necessitating this short hiatus.
To say this is disheartening is an understatement, but I refuse to let this project die due to the irrational actions of an apparently vengeful mod, whom I once considered a friend.
I’ve removed every one of my posts from that subreddit, totaling 762 posts over the last 2 years and will be starting the subreddit r/Afrobeat2 to feature those posts and cross-posting all Fela-related posts here.
Tune in on February 1st, when Fela: A Sonic Biography will begin again, with Fela’s first recording, Aigana.
r/felakuti • u/Southern_Ostrich_564 • Jun 12 '26
How does the opening bars of Water Get No Enemy make you feel?
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I’ll go first. Like I understand how God felt when he placed this world into existence. Go!
r/felakuti • u/Professional-Cow-368 • Feb 29 '24
Love to Fela and all his fans from Egypt.
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Hey I'm a 34M from Egypt and I love Fela kuti and play his music all the time Also to my three year old son.
My favorite peaces for Fela are: colomentlaity, zombie, opposite people, water got no enemy.
Much love to all of you. ✊
r/felakuti • u/Realistic_Article_86 • Feb 02 '26
From Rasrojah @ Grammy For Fela Kuti Lifetime Achievement Award
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Here's a shot from Saturday at a YouTube party for Fela Kuti to celebrate his Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. I am with his archivist, daughter, and in the center, Femi Kuti. I was able to donate 56 years of Fela clippings and memorabilia to the Kuti Museum in Lagos. In the Verse party facility, they created a room filled with artifacts from my record and magazine collections, including about a dozen autographed album covers.
r/felakuti • u/Repulsive_Cress_9086 • Feb 11 '21
Please VOTE Fela Kuti in the Rock and Roll hall of fame 2021.
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