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Late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s son, Seun Kuti, has stated that his father’s music his for everyone, but not his legacy.
The outspoken musician took to his Instagram page on Friday, October 26, 2018, where he recounted the hardship his family went through under the military regime in Nigeria.
“Whatever you think Fela went through, he went through with his family. We were his rock. My mother used to tell me bedtime stories about all the scars on her. My step mum, Najite was the first person the soldiers saw in kalakuta, she was swimming, they picked her up by her head from the pool and broke her neck!! My mother had a broken bayonet stitched into her and she couldn’t walk for 18months. The amount of state-sanctioned violence I have seen in my life as a child.
“When I was 9 I saw the cops shot and kill one of my dads boys in front of shrine and just left him there for nothing. Fela tried to protect us but u can’t protect anyone from that! You know these fucking cops would come to our house and just shoot up the place at least 2ice a week? Do y’all know that? Or u think this is just play play? See Fela’s music is a gift for the world and everyone is welcome but our legacy is ours alone, to protect and nurture. Y’all fakers stay waaaaay back. This isn’t your space. #getthesax,” he wrote.
Seun who is fast gaining the reputation for expressing his opinions about issues pertaining to his family, recently said a lot of singers want to become Fela but cannot make the sacrifices he made.
The music star and son to the late music icon made this known via his Instagram page on Monday, October 15, 2018
“People will never understand you without going through the education you have tried to promote. Every Tom Dick And Ashy is the new Fela just because they want to smoke igbo and chase women. How about the sacrifice? How about duty? They want to be Fela and at the same time be the darlings of all the oppressors. All these new Fela’s and those possessed by his spirit hobnobbing with white supremacists”.
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