Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti was born in 1938 and twenty years later he started a career that, at his death, had earned him worldwide fame and considerable fortune. When he started his musical career in 1958 one could rightly say that he didn't know it would turn out to be what it turned out to be.
He introduced the afrobeat music ten years later when he started taking the struggle for the nigerian enterprise as a personal one. And...mhen...what followed was no joke at all. He was jailed several times, especially during the military juntas that ruled the country. He was particularly not best of friends with former president Olusegun Obasanjo who, Fela claimed, had a hand in the death of his mother who was thrown out the window during one of several raids on Fela's home.
Fela died on the 2nd of AUgust 1997 at around 4 pm of 'AIDS related illness' according to his brother, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti. His popularity amongst the nigerian masses was never as about a hundred and fifty thousand persons attended his burial.
It is a well known fact that Fela will always be alive in our minds...that's why we here also join in remembering the Black President.
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