Nigerian Music

African music had it's shining star in the charismatic musician Fela Kuti.

His mother Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti I, was the first Nigerian lady to drive. She was the First woman politician probably, in Africa and a women's right activist in the early 1900's.

Afrobeat is the distinctive form of music that Fela Kuti pioneered. His passion was transferred into a national movement for corruption reform in Nigeria that is still powerful to this day.

A partial discography for Fela follows:

1971 Live! (with Ginger Baker)

1971 Why Black Man Dey Suffer

1972 Stratavarious (with Ginger Baker)

1972 Open & Close

1975 Expensive Shit

1977 Sorrow, Tears, and Blood

1979 Unknown Soldier

1980 I.T.T. (International Thief Thief)

1981 Black President

1986 Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense



Music Links - Online Nigeria’s picks

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Nigerian music is covered extensively in Wikipedia.