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A Nigerian musician and musician born on October 15, 1938 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Fela is not just a musician, his interest, like most musicians around the world, is limited to composing music and performing concerts. In addition to inventing the Afrobeat style, he spent many years of his life in prison due to his political activism, and rebelled against everything: his father the teacher, his mother the feminist, his aristocratic family legacy, the church, and especially the generals who ruled his country Nigeria. In 1977, the Central Intelligence Agency in Nigeria arrested Kuti and put him in a prison in Lagos, after releasing the album Zombie. Kuti rebelled against his father who worked to establish the English language from his position as the head of the teachers' union, considering him a partner in perpetuating cultural colonialism in Nigeria, before rebelling against the legacy of his aristocratic family, one of whose members, Wole Soyinka, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The musician also rebelled against the history of his mother, the famous feminist activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, becoming a prominent opponent of the feminist movement and marrying 27 women whom he called “queens”. In addition, he was openly hostile to the church and considered it, like other religious institutions, a symbol of cultural colonialism. Kuti remained in prison and detention until General Ibrahim Babangida released him in 1985. Still, it was not long before the authorities tried him and sentenced him to ten years in prison. When the sentence was read out, Kuti looked at the judge and said with a smile: I will not beg you. He died on August 2, 1997.
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