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Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, to a middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers.

Fela was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music. While there he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a style of music that he would later call afrobeat. The style was a fusion of African jazz and funk with West African highlife. In 1969, Fela took the band to the United States. While there, Fela discovered the Black Power movement through Sandra Smith (now Izsadore)—a partisan of the Black Panther Party—which would heavily influence his music and political views and renamed the band Nigeria ’70.

Fela Kuti, Roy Ayers - Upside Down/Music Of Many Colors [2001]

1. Upside Down
2. Go Slow
3. 2,000 Blacks Got To Be Free [feat. Roy Ayers]
4. Africa, Center Of The world [feat. Roy Ayers]

Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 - Zombie [2001]

1. Zombie
2. Mr. Follow Follow
3. Observation Is No Crime
4. Mistake [Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival -1978]

Fela Ransome Kuti and The Africa 70 - Open and Close [2001]

1. Open and Close

2. Suegbe and Pako

3. Gbagada Gbagada Gbogodo Gbogodo

4. Alu Jon Jonki Jon

5. Jeun Ko Ku [Chop and Quench]

6. Eko Ile

7. Je Nwi temi [Don't Gag Me]

Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Afrika 70 - Yellow Fever/Na Poi [2000]

1. Yellow fever
2. Na Poi
3. Na Poi [Part 1&2]
4. You No Gone Die... Unless

Fela Kuti - Fela's London Scene [1997]

1. J'ehin J'ehin
2. Egbe Mi O
3. Who're You
4. Buy Africa
5. Fight To Finish

Fela Ransome Kuti and The Africa 70 - Fela, Fela, Fela

1. My Lady Frustration
2. Viva Nigeria
3. Obe
4. Ako
5. Witchcraft
6. Wayo
7. Lover
8. Funky Horn
9. Eko
10. This Is Sad

Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 - Expensive Shit [1975]

1. Expensive Shit
2. Water No Get Enemy

Fela Ransome Kuti and The Africa 70 with Ginger Baker - LIVE! [1971]

1. Let's Start
2. Blackman's Cry
3. Ye Ye de Smell
4. Egbe Mi O [Carry Me I Want to Die]
5. Ginger Baker and Tony Allen Drum Solo [Instrumental]