Skip to main content

TBT - HEROES OF FELA KUTI


Everyone sure have someone that they either can't do without or they can't still sacrifice for anything 

Such people are seen as far more than loyalists and it will all look as if they've got no destination because they both sticked with each other. 

There is no way we will be talking about the wind instruments that we will skip the Saxophone, likewise there is no way we will talk of the sax and skip Fela Anikulapo Kuti. 

We will not speak of Fela without talking about The legendary Lekan Tajudeen Animashaun alias 'Baba Ani'

      Baba Ani left behind Fela on the sax


Baba Ani who is presently seen as an Unsung Hero of Afro-beat joined Fela Kuti's Koola Lobitos in 1965, and stayed with him until his (Fela) death in 1997. 

In the band Egypt 80, he took over the bandleader role held by ace drummer Tony Allen in Africa/Afrika 70. 

Up until 2016, he was Musical director of, the Egypt 80 Band fronted by Kuti's youngest son @RealSeunKuti

By the side, along with his life-long engagement with Fela, Baba Ani was also a full-time staff of the Lagos Island Local Govt City Hall till  retirement age.

He also stood with Fela all through his ordeal with the then Military Govt of Nigeria. 

Today, we celebrate a Living Legend called Lekan Tajudeen Animashaun alias 'Baba Ani' 
(born in 1936)


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

LOVE TRIANGLE

Kunle loves Amaka but Amaka love Taiwo  Taiwo , instead of loving Amaka back was fantasizing about Hassana the daughter of our Imam   Hassana vowed that her type of man is not that of Taiwo so she went for Ken   Ken , a Yahoo Boy said he can't be with a daughter of a cleric because of his ways hence he settled for Cynthia   Cynthia who has been on a trip to Dubai twice said she can't date a Yahoo Boy since her " sugar zaddy " was ready to sponsor her next trip to Maldives. Cynthia only love his money not him so she "kukuma" settled for Ben her kinsman hoping that Ben will one day propose to her after she might have left " zaddy "  Ben , smart boy, said he will never marry an "achawo geh" so he was just taking Cynthia's money and spending on Amaka who is in love with Taiwo that is in love with Hassana who is in love Ken who is in love with Cynthia that is in love with Zaddy's money and Ben who spends for Am...
1 comment
Read more

The history of 419 in Nigeria

Well, even in foreign countries, fingers are easily pointed at Nigerians because the outside world believe we are "419ers" Did you know that the first exponent of 419 in Nigeria was not a Nigerian? "On 18 December 1920, a certain Mr. Crentsil, a former employee of the Marine Department of the colonial government in Lagos, wrote an extraordinary letter to a contact in the British colony of the Gold Coast, today's Ghana.... It is ironic that the first known Four One Nine fraudster known to history was not a Nigerian at all, but rather a Ghanaian.  Crentsil seems to have written a number of similar letters, each time offering to provide magical services on payment of a fee.  In December 1921, he was charged by the police with three counts under various sections of the criminal code including section 419... But Crentsil was in luck; the magistrate presiding over his case discharged him with caution on the first count and acquitted him on the two others for la...
Post a Comment
Read more

I CAN NOT BREATHE - AYOMIKUN MISHAEL AFOLAYAN

BREATHE "I can't breathe". Those were the words he uttered Before his life was snuffed out. "I can't breathe". Those were the words that he uttered Before his life was ended, under the knee of a police officer. He groaned in pain, Pinned to the ground, Unable to move, Unable to breathe, Losing the power, The will to live. And as he gave up, As his life ebbed into nothingness, He sparked a change, a movement. He sparked the cry of a people, Stifled by years, decades of  oppression and racisim By years, decades of unfiltered bigotry and prejudice. "We can't breathe!", they chant. "We can't breathe!". And I wonder, If the knee will still be on the neck, Restricting the freedom of a people. And I wonder, If the knee will still be on the neck, Pressing the life out of a people. I wonder, If the knee will ever be removed, If an entire race will be able to live, to breathe. Ayomikun Mishael Afolayan
5 comments
Read more