#MCM Femi Anikulapo-kuti

Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, composer, political activist, and Pan-Africanist.

He is the pioneer of Afrobeat, an African music genre that combines traditional Yoruba with funk and jazz.

Fela Kuti was the son of a Nigerian women's rights activist, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti.

Kuti's songs are mostly sung in Nigerian pidgin English, His main instruments were the saxophone and the keyboards, but he also played the trumpet, electric guitar, and the occasional drum solo.

Kuti refused to perform songs again after he had already recorded them, which hindered his popularity outside Africa.

In 1958, he was sent to London to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music, with the trumpet being his preferred instrument.

In 1960, Kuti married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor, with whom he had three children (Femi, Yeni, and Sola).

In 1970, he founded the Kalakuta Republic commune, which declared itself independent from military rule.

In 1977, Kuti and Africa 70 released the album Zombie, which heavily criticized Nigerian soldiers, and used the zombie metaphor to describe the Nigerian military's methods. 

The album was a massive success and infuriated the government, who raided the Kalakuta Republic with 1,000 soldiers. During the raid, Fela was severely beaten, and his elderly mother was fatally injured after being thrown from a window.

Fela's response to the attack was to deliver his mother's coffin to the Dodan Barracks in Lagos, General Olusegun Obasanjo's residence, and to write two songs, "Coffin for Head of State" and "Unknown Soldier," 

In 1978 Kuti became a polygamist when he simultaneously married 27 women. The highly publicized wedding served many purposes: it marked the one year anniversary of Kuti and his wives surviving the Nigerian government's attack on the Kalakuta Republic.

In 1984, he critiqued and insulted the authoritarian then-president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. "Beast Of No Nation", one of his most popular songs, refers to Buhari as an "animal in a madman's body"; in Nigerian Pidgin:

He died on the 2nd of August 1997.

Since his death in 1997, reissues and compilations of his music have been overseen by his first son, Femi Kuti.

Kuti is remembered as an influential icon who voiced his opinions on matters that affected the nation through his music.

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