Afrobeat history and cultural background

There is no direct connection between Fela’s career and those of his father’s or grandfather’s. Fela was not the inheritor of a lineage as much as the originator of one: the link between his life and work and those of some of his own children and grandchildren, male and female, is pronounced.

Prominent among those children are his daughter Yeni and his sons Femi and Seun.

Afrobeats songs

Each began their careers as members of Fela’s Egypt Each shares their father’s pan-Africanist outlook and unconditional belief in human rights, and actively campaigns against the corruption which, today as in Fela’s day, holds back African development.

To this agenda, Yeni, Femi and Seun have added new millennial concerns such as climate change and environmental protection, and campaigns to eradicate malaria and HIV/Aids and for the rights of LGBT people.

While all these topics provide a line back to Fela, his children’s support of LGBT rights paints a particularly vivid one. LGBT communities are discriminated aga