Femi Kuti Exclusive: ‘I Don’t Believe In Marriage’

As Americans are still basking in the euphoria of the Broadway musical (Fela!), that chronicles the life and times of the Afro beat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti; his true friends – the common man on the street, the oppressed and cheated troop in and out of the New Afrika Shrine on a daily basis to celebrate another posthumous birthday of the man whose musical sermons and activism were about giving hope to the common Nigerian.
It’s a Thursday evening at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos. Afro beat followers are gathering in their twos and threes. They are walking up and about like surveyors – lighting fresh cigarette sticks at quick intervals, while marijuana smoke is up in the air like an inferno scene is close by. They are all gearing up for the evening’s activities. Backstage is a staircase that leads to Femi Kuti’s sanctuary. We step further without fear, peeping at different pictures hanging on the walls – the World Music Award winner and two-time Grammy nominee poses with different great men and women in the portraits.
Cutting on Femi, he is in his chair, engrossed in a book while his saxophone sits comfortably on his laps. He doesn’t even notice the presence of a third party until a little later. ‘Somebody just gave me this book of my grandfather – it’s very interesting’ he says later.

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