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Obi Asika

Obi Asika

Director-General of Nigeria’s National Council for Arts and Culture

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Why Fela Kuti lives on

Nigeria’s late Afrobeat pioneer won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award nearly 30 years after he died because his music is still relevant today.
Fela Kuti in 1984.Mike Moore/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images