Eye Odíderé @eye_odidere - Twitter Profile

@TheAjibolaGrey You guys should let him rest! Every market day something is brought up against him! It’s been close to 30 years since he passed! Whatever way it’s spinned! or the side of the divide you fall, Facts are stubborn, he left an indelible mark on the African musical scene!

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Cinderella Man

@Osi_Suave

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It’s mad weird watching people attempt to diminish a musical icon because of agenda driven takes and foolish stats. Before playlists. Before charts. Before streaming math became the loudest voice in the room, there was Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti. For the longest time, the Kutis were the only Nigerian artists consistently acknowledged in serious global music spaces. Not because they begged for validation, but because their work made it impossible to ignore them. Afrobeat did not fall from the sky. The current Afrobeats ecosystem exists because Fela defined a genre musically, politically, and spiritually. What we enjoy today is a renovation of a house he built from scratch. Fela didn’t make songs. He made statements. Zombie wasn’t a hit record. It was a direct challenge to military power. Sorrow, tears, and Blood wasn’t for vibes. It was a mirror to state violence. Water No Get Enemy proved protest could still be poetic and timeless. His music was treated like a threat because it was a threat to oppression, silence, and convenient lies. Artists will come and go. Numbers will rise and fall. Algorithms will change. But cultural architects are permanent. When Nigerians rubbish their icons, we weaken our own history and then act shocked when foreigners don’t respect it. You can’t erase the foundation and still expect the house to stand. Fela was not perfect, but he was necessary. And legacies like that don’t degenerate. They only get misunderstood in eras obsessed with momentary relevance.

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@𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆

@OneJoblessBoy

6 months ago

“I would not stay in Paris or in Europe because I get my inspiration mostly from staying at home” - Fela Anikulapo Kuti

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Eye Odíderé @eye_odidere

6 months ago

You wouldn’t have said it any better! He’s Che Guevara & Bob Marley in one body!

Cinderella Man

@Osi_Suave

6 months ago

Fela’s lyrics documented Nigerian history in real time. Songs like Zombie, Coffin for Head of State, and Sorrow Tears and Blood function as musical archives of military oppression, colonial hangovers, and African self betrayal. He paid for this courage with arrests, beatings, exile, and the death of his mother, yet he never diluted his message Today, Afrobeat influences artists across the world, from hip hop to jazz to pop. That global presence traces directly back to Fela. Nigeria has produced many stars, but Fela produced a movement. He remains unmatched because he combined scholarship, innovation, activism, and fearless truth telling into one enduring legacy.

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Cinderella Man

@Osi_Suave

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Fela’s lyrics documented Nigerian history in real time. Songs like Zombie, Coffin for Head of State, and Sorrow Tears and Blood function as musical archives of military oppression, colonial hangovers, and African self betrayal. He paid for this courage with arrests, beatings, exile, and the death of his mother, yet he never diluted his message Today, Afrobeat influences artists across the world, from hip hop to jazz to pop. That global presence traces directly back to Fela. Nigeria has produced many stars, but Fela produced a movement. He remains unmatched because he combined scholarship, innovation, activism, and fearless truth telling into one enduring legacy.

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