On 30 September 1979, one Fela Kuti and sixty of his supporters, including members of his family, took a symbolic coffin to Nigerian head of state General Obasanjo’s headquarters at Dodan Army Barracks. This was because Fela held General Obasanjo, due to step down as Nigerian president the next day, responsible for his mother’s death, who had died a year earlier.
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Edit the headline well what trouble does he cause?
His mother was not one of the first , she was the first !
Very good history of Fela Kuti I still got his Zombie songs the 1970s I'm 71 now and still listen to his music its relevant just as much today in 2023 as it was then. Nigeria stay out of Niger thanks sir for this upload learn a little more missing parts of the story. Louisville, KY USA
Thanks for this valuble and informative episode about Fela Kuti my Nigerian cousins were huge fans keep the gems coming peace and blessings my brother.
So let me get this straight. Nigerians largely did not like/understand Jazz but they love Highlife which has Jazz a a significant component 🤔?
So Nigerians like Jazz and Funk if they are wearing African clothes….
didn't die after being incarcerated as they refused him his herbal routines?
Fela, the LEGEND lives on!
We need a documentary about Dr kwame Nkrumah
FELA
A defective activist
Nigerian youths this his work must not waste. Noting has really changed! Me my condition has reached a point that i should talk! I don’t know about you
What damned history are you recounting? Go back to school to polish your language. You don't know what you're talking about. You don't understand what Olufela Anikulapo Kuti stood for or fought against. You don't know the intrigues of the dictators who have ruined Africa and continue to wreck it even presently. Fela was a bold, fearlessly undaunted revolutionary, well born and raised in privileged class, could have afforded to enjoy the perks entitled to his birth. But saw far and wide into the inequalities and misrule that characterized the serial autocratic political governments in Nigeria and the African sphere, and applied his music as a critic and civil rights activist to condemn it. He stood for freedom and liberty of Africans and mankind as reflected in his vast work evidently borne as enduring legacy of truism.
Great documentary with verifiable historical facts. Just would have loved if the video was interspersed/laced with short short vocals from his hits timed to the narrative✌
you need to do a biography on Dr Thomas Mapfumo , chimurenga music guru
Tatenda we are waiting for Winky d biographic
The man is up there with woodie guthrie, joe hill and peter tosh. Uncompromising. Forever. Not a life wasted.
thank you ❤
Fela remains the greatest musician Nigeria ever produced. Musically very intelligent. I hear today's artists in Nigeria capturing some theme/motiv of his music. He was so creative and original
Unfortunately He is no more than a Instrument of West Colonisation
The Virtuous Noble Lie of the West Freedom Equality and Fraternity as a Trap of the Ocult Agreement of Consent
I am a Ghanaian but Fela is one of my favorites musicians ever. He’s iconic revolutionary leader and was opening the eyes of Nigerians against western influences not only in Nigeria but the whole of Africa, a great Nkrumahist that he was.His love for Ghana made him moved to Ghana where he also had and encounter with the then Acheampong’s government Bcos a Lebanese man close to the government was maltreating some Ghanaians which resulted to confrontation between him and the Lebanese man which resulted to his deportation back to Nigeria.He was a great man. May his soul rest in perfect peace. Eventually l attended his shows in Paris and he was great man indeed on stage.
How does talking about the trouble in your country mean you “CAUSED” the trouble?
You’re saying the same thing as the people he fought against. You’ve weaponized Fela’s GOD given right to speak his mind.
YOU ARE BLAMING THE MESSENGER.
You can NOT be on the side of peace if you think those advocating for it are “CAUSING” the trouble.
EVERYTHING you say that sounds amendable is contradicted by you title and tone.
It doesn’t matter if a black man is narrator of this video, it still has a COLONIAL mentality that vilifies HUMAN rights. Like the right to be safe and speak up when you’re being hurt against your will.
I’ve NEVER known anyone who weaponized freedom of speech to fight for freedom by calling them a trouble making who was NOT for the violence and fascism, they pretend to be against even as they covertly frame them as CAUSING the problem they are trying to address.
Then there’s villifying a black man for smoking marijuana. Something that’s still done to black people even now that it’s officially legal for white peoples in these SAME places.
The idea of saying complaints about the problem is the CAUSE!!!
We have black people who say things like that in America. We call those people house slaves and say they have Stockholm syndrome. Or yellow fever.
You are one of Zombies Fela talked about.
There’s nothing worse than someone who “helps” by pretending to be supportive while framing people trying to improve things as “causing” trouble.
You are gaslighting the idea of activist.
I hope you get help for your inability to differentiate between cause and effect, activism and CAUSING problems. The type of help you can only get from actually LISTENING to what your saying as you bait and switch.
How does titling this video in a way that frames Fela’s activism as trouble making inform people on the trouble he was trying to fight? How is blaming Fela for the trouble he was trying to fight honor his life or logic, that dictates the trouble was the cause of Fela’s protest? His activism can’t be blamed for the trouble that existed in his country BEFORE he was born.
If a white man like Trump said the same sentence you used as the title to Fela or Martin Luther, or the other role models you say influenced Fela, this would be another reason to call him a fascist and racist who ignores fact to prop up their biases.
Meanwhile very little was said about the political environment he was fighting against creating the impression he was complaining about nothing and is just “causing trouble”.
I guess the violence Fela fought against isn’t bothering noticing to someone who sees freedom of speech as “causing trouble”.
You clearly someone who like to think your for human rights even as you argue against it. You’re for doing documentaries but have no room for facts. 😂
This isn’t a documentary, it’s anti democratic anti-human rights propaganda relayed by a colonial minded ZOMBIE. 🧟♂️
The fact that you’re black makes no difference. 😮
Fela's activism is a personal inspiraton
Rlp🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤👍🏼🇳🇬🙏🏻
Buhari
Such a brave man.
So many have died during this volatile period.
God rest fela and the brave souls that were sacrificed.
My Kenyan self oit here at midnight trynna understand who thel legendary name is
THATS WHAT I TOLD JONAH YALAH WHEN I WAS THERE FELA KUTI…THERE IS NO LOVE! 2020.
kwes e reference
Wow this is a special family
Some is some. Not So-Me
Ransome Kuti. Thanks for the great video too
Yeah, Yeah👊🏿❤🖤💚💪🏿
Fela didn't do HiLife…pls correct that. He was great musician and activist no doubt.
Hilife is from Ghana and Fela acknowledged it himself.
First Hand News From the Motherland!
A true African Revolutionary
Baba Fela Kuti is the father of all Afro Electronic music (house,jazz,beats,rock)
What a Legend 🙌🏿🙌🏿
Old DICKtator Obasanjo must pay the Kuti family for murdering Felas mum
His last major release before his death "Underground System" you gotta listen to that track…
Fela kuti was a genious Nigeria should be proud of him.
Fue un profeta y visionario. Fela se adelantó a su época, tanto que su legado hoy está vigente y los problemas sociales que denunció siguen como antaño.
El colonialismo,el robo descarado a los recursos naturales y públicos , la exclusión y la pérdida de soberanía son el pan de cada día .
Hoy se ha pasado del colonialismo al neoconialismo porque las corporaciones siguen haciendo de las suyas como antes.
Saludos hermanos africanos desde Colombia de parte de un afrodescendiente.
Fela music is what i play every sunday afternoon
Another person who got to know about Fela after his often related questions asked in Ugandan ultimate university quiz season 3 let's, gather here .
What a greatness ❤❤.
Fela is a movement indeed
😑this is so sad