Tekno challenges the belief that Fela Kuti is the sole originator of Afrobeats, acknowledging other Nigerian legends' ...

Nigerian singer Augustine Okechukwu, popularly known as Tekno, has sparked a fresh debate over the history of Afrobeat and ...

Popular Nigerian musician Augustine Miles Kelechi, widely known as Tekno, has sparked debate within the music industry after ...

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From the late 1970s onward, Fela's lyrics became longer, more complex and ever more confrontational. Coffin For Head Of State, first released on Kalakuta in 1981, is an outstanding example. It is one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three decades after his death, the "father of Afrobeat" Fela Kuti has made history by becoming the first African to get a Lifetime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Lagos, Nigeria's commercial and creative capital, food is doing something unusual. It's keeping alive the spirit of a musician.

The title role in “Fela!”, the Tony-winning musical about Nigerian firebrand Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is too demanding for anyone to do eight times a week. Like Kuti’s hectoring, sweaty performances, ...

In the late 1960s, Fela decided that he had no use for love songs or party tunes; he wanted to challenge unjust authority. By Jon Pareles Resistance is etched into Afrobeat, the music forged by the ...

Singer, Augustine Miles Kelechi, popularly known as Tekno, has sparked controversy after claiming that the late music maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was not ...