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Fela Kuti


Fela Kuti transcended music as a charismatic artist and activist. He pioneered the rise of Afrobeat music in the 1970s in Nigeria with his Pan-African stance challenging an oppressive status quo. I pay homage to a legendary West African icon with this ballpoint pen portrait, drawn on a page from ‘Questions of Our Day’ (1934).

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