WME has signed the Estate of Nigerian bandleader, composer, political activist and Afrobeat creator Fela Kuti for management worldwide under its WME Legends division. WME’s Legends division focuses on ...

In the 20th century, Africa produced several significant political figures. Influential leaders, like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and Nelson Mandela of South Africa, were among ...

GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz, funk and West African music, and it pays homage to the Afrobeat sound that Femi's father, Fela Kuti, helped create in the 1960s. Kuti spoke to us from ...

“I’m 54 now,” acknowledged a slightly winded Femi Kuti on Friday night at the 9:30 Club, just before the three encores that capped the two-hour show. There was some visible evidence of the Nigerian ...

Twenty years ago, the AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot unveiled Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti, a tribute record that recruited over three dozen artists in celebration of the ...

If a big part of having a family is the ability to pass on the knowledge and tradition you've learned over your life, then our guests, Femi and Made Kuti, are making the most of life. They represent ...

Rolling Stone is premiering the first collaboration between a seemingly unlikely but delightful pair of iconic artists: Afrobeat star Seun Kuti and Posdnuos of De La Soul linked up for “Stand Well ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

In a recent interview on the Tea By Tae Podcast, Grammy-nominated Afrobeat star Made Kuti stated that his grandfather, Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti, died poor and broke. “Fela died poor. He was ...

Talented Afrobeat singer and multi-instrumentalist, Omorinmade Kuti aka Made Kuti, is billed to thrill as over 500 African film practitioners across the African continent and diaspora have confirmed ...