A Letter to Mama Afrika in Heaven: “Ninakupenda Malaika”
Dear mama Afrika It has been two years since you left us and my tears have not dried up yet, still flowing like the river Nile through the Kenyan forest , up on the mountain...
fela kuti
You need a Fela Kuti in your life…
He was born as Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Nigeria, (Abeokuta, Ogun State ) to a middle-class family. Growing up under the bosom of a feminist, activist and an anti-colonial mother, and a Protestant...
Swizz Beatz Blends Fela Kuti Classics With Hip Hop Beats
Dubbed “the James Brown of Africa,” Fela Kuti and African music in general is making waves in mainstream American music. People are looking for something new and exciting in music and it seems like...
Decoding Beyonce’s controversial photoshoot “Blackface”
“Far from the glamorous Sasha Fierce, the beauty posed for the magazine with amazing fashion designers clothes, but also in a dress created by her mother. A return to her African roots,...
