Afrobeat

”“Culture is not entertainment, but power.

ByProf. MarkAnthony Nze
Investigative Journalist | Public Intellectual | Global Governance Analyst | Health & Social Care Expert | International Business/Immigration Law Professional

Prologue: The Man Who Refused Silence

There are artists, and then there are architects of history. Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì belongs to the latter order, those rare visionaries who transform music into movement, rhythm into resistance, sound into sovereignty. To speak of Fela is to speak not of entertainment but of insurgency. His art was never an accessory to power; it was its most persistent adversary.

Born in colonial Nigeria, …