Throwback Photos of ‘Fela Kuti’ After He Was Seriously Beaten By Soldiers in 1977

Yesterday, 2nd of August 2017, marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician and Legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti
In celebration of afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, here are throwback photos of the singer after a battalion of soldiers descended on Kalakuta Republic, attacked him and burnt his house.

Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a medical doctor and Fela’s older brother told a news conference in Lagos on Sunday August 3, 1997 announcing the death of a musical giant, social commentator and maestro.
The enigma who painted himself as larger than life and who death could not touch, succumbed to complications resulting from HIV/AIDS
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