Fela’s intellectualism – captured, reflected, simplified and popularised in his songs – has been greatly underrated and understudied.
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As a critical everyday historian, Fela musically recorded the daily problems, challenges and struggles of Africans. As a radical human rights and pro-democracy activist, he fought tirelessly for human rights, democracy, and development. Also, he challenged Nigeria’s despotic, kleptomaniac and retrograde military and civilian regimes.
It’s essential to acknowledge that news production incurs expenses, and we take pride in never placing our stories behind a prohibitive paywall.Fela waged his struggles mainly through music. Music, he repeatedly warned, is not primarily for money-making, or even entrainment – important as they are. But that it is a weapon for promoting emancipatory struggles and advancing the spiritual development of humanity.
Arnold Temu and Bonaventure Swai, in their “Historians and Africanist History: A Critique,” wrote that crisis, in general, “are not natural; rather they are social occurrence; they are not acts of God.” For Marx, “the importance of crisis lies … in its ability to lay bare the inner workings and dynamics of a specific social formation, and… in exposing the contradictions inherent in that social formation.
But countries like the United States, Brazil and India were colonised and yet they became developed. So why is Africa different? The nature of colonialism in these areas differed from that of Africa, which has been described as “late colonialism.” In Africa, the colonisers avoided the ‘mistakes’ they had made in the Americas and Asia, which led to their liberation.
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