The Unofficial Website for Fela Kuti and Afrobeat Music

Fela links:

• Find out about the yearly held Felabration festival at The New Africa Shrine, in honor of Fela Kuti.
   
• Radio Shrine has fascinating short documentary’s about several Afrobeat musicians, including Fela Kuti.
   
• The Fela Project: an excellent resource for material about the late Fela Kuti set up by the man behind the art exhibition Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Trevor Schoonmaker.
   
• A complete discograpy of all of Fela Kuti’s albums from Koola Lobitos to his death in 1997.
   
• Some excellent interviews about Fela with former bandmembers and famous musicians by Jay Babcock.
   
• The BBC also has a page on Fela with a biography, discography and links. They also have an excellent radio show on Fela that you can listen to online. Highly recommended!
   
• Africaman Original is a very well written article about the life and times of Fela Kuti by Carter von Pelt.
   
• Wikipedia also has a page on Fela with a brief but informative biography.
   
• Check out video’s of the new hot Afrobeat musical FELA! Off-broadway.
   
• Audio interview by KCRW’s Tom Schnabel of Fela Anikulapo Kuti from 1986.

Femi Links:

• Femi Kuti on MySpace.com with news, tour dates and downloads.
   
• Femi Kuti: Day by Day. Album review and interview by Jambase.
   
• Femi Kuti: Carrying The Torch: a long and interesting interview with Femi from 2007 by JamBase.
   
• A feature on Femi Kuti by Ink Blot Magazine.
   
• Africa Confidential meets Femi Kuti up close.
   
• Listen online to this complete concert that Femi gave in 2007 in the 9:30 Club in Washinton DC.
   
• A fantastic review by LA Weekly of one of Femi’s gigs in the House of Blues, complete with pictures and video.

Seun Links:

• The Myspace page of Seun Kuti, Fela’s youngest son, with tour dates, biography and song samples.
   
• The Unofficial website for Seun Kuti. Made by Alan from France, this page has a news section that is updated daily.
   
• Music of Resistance is a music program hosted by Steve Chandra of Asian Dub Foundation. Their feature on Seun Kuti is a must see!
   
• Nice Seun Kuti interview by the Guardian, 2009.

Other Afrobeat artists:

• Tony Allen created Afrobeat together with Fela Kuti. At the age of 71 he is still touring and recording.
   
• Zozo Afrobeat is a 13-piece Afrobeat ensemble from New York led by Kaleta, a West-African musician who performed with Fela Kuti and King Sunny Adé. This site also has a store and tour dates.
   
• Many current Afrobeat musicians fuse their music with hiphop. Bantu, a musician based in Lagos,  is one of them. Highly recommended!
   
• Dede Mabiaku is an Afrobeat musician that you should really check out.
   
• The BBC has it’s own informative Afrobeat page.

Afrobeat Blogs:

• Find out what’s going on at The Shrine on the New Afrika Shrine Blogspot.
   
• If you want to keep updated on any Afrobeat related news, you should definitely check out the
  Afrofunk Music Forum Blog.
   
• Read interesting gig reviews and interviews on The Afrobeat Blog.