Fela Kuti

“I got wrecked, paranoid, the whole thing... and then they hit this riff that I still remember. I just wept”: Paul McCartney on the life-changing moment he saw Fela Kuti live while smoking with Ginger Baker

50 years on, Fela’s legendary ‘Zombie’ album still resonates in Nigeria

Fela Kuti in the Studio: An Oral History

Fela Kuti: Fear No Man Wins Peabody Award for Arts

How Jad Abumrad transports listeners to a legendary club in Lagos for the acclaimed podcast, ‘Fela Kuti: Fear No Man’

Fela Kuti is the first African pop star to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Fela Kuti: Fear No Man

Paul McCartney Got 'Totally Blasted' Smoking Weed With Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat Is the Sound of the Past, the Present, and the Future

Sean Jacobs

How Nigerian musician Fela Kuti used music as a weapon against dictatorship

View / Why Fela Kuti lives on

KCRW Honors Fela Kuti with Yeni Kuti & Jad Abumrad

Fela Kuti’s Grammy lifetime achievement award is a major win for African music

Fela Kuti Changed the World Without Asking for Permission

Music legend Fela Kuti becomes first African to get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

Fela Kuti to receive Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

Los Angeles Honors Fela Kuti’s GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award with Live Band Event (Jan. 31, 2026)

The World

Protest songs, Afrobeats, and Fela Kuti’s legacy of political resistance - 1A

How Fela Kuti’s Grandson Mádé Kuti Is Bringing Afrobeat To A New Era

How Fela Kuti Channeled James Brown’s Funk to Spark His Own Revolution

The Obamas’ Higher Ground Sets Fela Kuti Podcast At Audible

Fela Kuti: Yellow Fever

Fela Kuti plus Femi and Made Kuti: Challenging Debilitating Corruption with Dramatic Music

Fela Kuti: Nigerians celebrate their beloved Afrobeat icon

The life and theater of Fela Kuti