(Born 15 October 1938, Abeokuta, Nigeria)
Celebrated Afro-beat musician, bandleader and
one of just a handful of Nigerian public figures who consistently and
unequivocally condemns the Igbo genocide (as he evocatively reminds the world
in his authorised biography, Carlos Moore, Fela:
The Bitch of a Life, Lawrence Hill,
2009: “The Biafrans were right … That’s evident now … The Ibos were right … The
Biafrans were f***ing right to secede” [47-49]), untiringly and expansive
critic of regimes in post-Igbo genocide age-of-pestilence Nigeria, employing
the expressive lyrics of his compositions and the operatic drive of his
orchestra to assail genocidist generals and sergeants and colonels and
financiers and politicians and their cohorts who control and wheel and deal in
the kakistocratic lair that is Nigeria
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe(Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa 70, “Everything Scatter” [recorded: LP Nigeria, Coconut PMLP1000, 1975])
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