Fela Kuti fathered the musical movement Afrobeat and its crown prince, 25-year-old Seun Kuti.
Fela Kuti was imprisoned and beaten for singing about the same things his son now sings about.
We met when I interviewed her about a version of the song "MAW Expensive" by the late, great Fela Kuti.
Among the demonstrators were musician Seun Anikulapo-Kuti, son of afrobeat innovator Fela Kuti, and activists Femi Falana and Ganiyat Faweyinmi.
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In the film, with its thematic concern with the freeing influence of music, Tarek insists that Walter listen to Afro-pop star Fela Kuti.
When I speak about music I tend to refer particularly to the late Fela Kuti, who lived in Lagos, who was a "Lagosian" (the indigenous of Lagos call themselves Lagosian).
That I don't have to explain more about who Fela Kuti was or what Afrobeat sounds like is a testament to the remarkable, accelerating rise of Fela's fame since his death in 1997.
It also features former Clash bassist Paul Simonon and the 67-year-old drummer Tony Allen who, as a member Fela Kuti's Nigerian funk band in the '70s, proved himself to be one of the greatest groove stokers in recorded history.
By now, a fairly wide assortment of pop-music fans would know what I was talking about if I noted that, in the late 1960s, bandleader Fela Kuti invented a style called Afrobeat with the key collaboration of his drummer, Tony Allen.
With members of his late father's band, Egypt 80, playing alongside younger musicians and with the words "FELA LIVES" tattooed across his back, Seun Kuti made world music that completely transcended the term: utterly African, yet thoroughly cosmopolitan.
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