Roy Ayers & Fela Kuti: Music Of Many Colours

October 2020

Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti each explored Pan-Africanism and diasporic solidarity their own way before their meeting in 1979, which represented a crystallisation of ideas. By John Morrison

Erykah Badu curates Fela Kuti box set

18|10|2017

The limited edition vinyl only anthology will also feature seven Badu essays about Fela

Fela Kuti albums reissued on vinyl, plus Finding Fela UK screenings

04|08|2014

Knitting Factory is pressing five key albums to wax, and screenings of a documentary on Fela open the same week.

Fela Kuti: Chronicle of A Life Foretold

September 2011

When Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died in August 1997, Nigeria lost one of its most controversial and inspirational cultural figures. Here, the Africa-based writer Lindsay Barrett maps the extraordinary trajectory of Fela's life, detailing the emergence of his patented brand of Afrobeat, his anarchic lifestyle, and the ongoing battles with the Nigerian authorities. This feature was originally published in The Wire 169 (March 1998).