political power

Fela Lives: Afrobeat As Global Political Power

September 23, 2025 2:30 am

”“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, …

Fools In Politics Hardly Believe That Power Is Transient

November 14, 2020 2:33 pm

In these contemporary times, kingdoms, nations or countries are now being built with political strategy unlike in the medieval era, when unnecessary wars were fought and lives wasted. Today, such wars for political control or domination are seldom fought; instead well articulated diplomatic onslaughts are launched by superior powers to control and propagate imperialism in the developing countries but extremely rich with natural and human resources.

Whilst the Western and a few Arab and Asian countries had since left the ancient style of political control by incessant wars amongst themselves, Africa as a continent is still far from getting to …