It had in attendance Fela’s family and two of his former dancers and queens – Lara and Laide Baby. Fela’s music achieved what Omoyele Sowore’s #RevolutionNow mantra long before that word gained popular currency. The journey to Fela’s Republic and the Kalakuta Queens started about two and a half years ago when I said, ‘listen, what happened to the Kalakuta queens’? You all probably wonder why Fela’s children don’t say enough or don’t say as much as they should. We can’t marry because we are Fela’s children; we can’t walk into homes because we are Fela’s children.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2020 04:52 UTC