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Fela anikulapo kuti 15 october 1938 2 august 1997 was a nigerian multiinstrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the afrobeat genre, and human rights activist. The club was home to the king of afrobeat, fela anikulapo kuti, who died in 1997 from aidsrelated reasons. Nigeria witnesses on friday the rebirth of a one time africas most famous night club the shrine. Listen to jeun ko ku chop and quench by fela kuti afrodisiac. Discover more than 56 million tracks, create your own. In this dissertation i will generally use fela as he was, and still is fondly called by fans, or fela anikulapo kuti.
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