Fela in a sentence

Some people are actually questioning Fela’s legacy, if you know what it takes to survive in the military regime, and how hard it is to speak against the government then, Fela’s legacy will never be in question.

FCS Music Director Maestro Wes Kenney will lead the orchestra in a concert of music composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Benjamin Britten, Chief “Fela” Sowande, and Grammy Award-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis.

Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeats titan Fela, supplies shimmering brass on the braggadocious “Float”.

Union leaders from EIS-FELA took to the streets outside the Finnart Street campus.

Although colleges are free to make their own local decisions about pay deductions, sources close to EIS-FELA have said that they plan to raise similar concerns with the board over the fairness and legality of deeming.

At the start of 2023 the Scottish government and college employers set out to break EIS-Fela, the FE lecturers’ union in Scotland.

Citing the wisdom of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti, Omokri warned against adopting an attitude of ‘Shakara Oloje,’ or false pride, which he argued hinders meaningful connections.

City of Glasgow College recently resolved a bitter industrial dispute with EIS-FELA, having looked to impose 100 compulsory redundancies on staff as it looks to deal with a £6m budget shortfall.

DJ Switch highlighted the historical impact of art on social movements, citing examples such as the late king of Afro beat, Fela Anikulapo’s music and the role of literature in exposing injustice.

Does that mean Fela is not a pan-Africanist because he likes to lick ice cream?

I call it an appearance because, as Fela Anikulapo Kuti sang in Overtake Don Overtake Overtake, “Dem put civilian friends for there, them call am federal gofment.

I’m not Fela, l’m BIG7.

In 2018, he disagreed with Kanye's remarks regarding his father, the renowned Nigerian singer Fela Kuti.

Nigerian artist Seun Kuti, the son of Afrobeat legend Fela, has dismissed monogamy claiming it “doesn’t work”.

Seun, the youngest of Fela's seven children, was only 14 years old when his father passed away in 1997.

Social media users who have seen the viral photo said Ekong is a fan of the late Afrobeats singer Fela Kuti.

Students at the Herkimer Street school, located in Ocean Hill near Brownsville and Bed-Stuy, learn from the songbooks of Beres Hammond, Duke Ellington, Prince, Michael Jackson, Fela Kuti, and Beyonce.

Burna Boy in a short tweet said that "Everybody is a Fela fan and supporter now that he is dead.

Fela spoke about them.

His understated, insinuating rhythms — mixing percussion and electronics — connect to Jamaica, Puerto Rico and American R&B and trap as well as to the Nigerian Afrobeat of Fela Kuti (Burna Boy is from Lagos, Nigeria).