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:

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.

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