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Femi Kuti

June 2024

  • Siobhan Donaghy, Keisha Buchanan and Mutya Buena of Sugababes.

    ‘My knees are as strong as Megan Thee Stallion!’ What 20 celebrities learned at Glastonbury 2024

    Cut your toenails, play bingo – and drink rum instead of lager. Performers including Marina Abramović, Sugababes, Don Letts and Paloma Faith share their tips
  • A sculpture of an Afro comb, ‘All Power to All People’ artwork by US artist Hank Willis Thomas, in the West Holts field at Glastonbury

    Increase in Black artists on Glasto bill reflects cultural shift

    After Lenny Henry’s 2022 criticism of lack of diversity, this year’s bill features Janelle Monáe, Danny Brown, Little Simz and more
  • Tems performing at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in May – the Nigerian artist has been added to the Glastonbury lineup.

    Glastonbury announces full 2024 lineup, adding James, Tems, Squeeze and more

    Femi Kuti, Seasick Steve and Birmingham Royal Ballet among other artists added as festival announces full range of stage times

February 2021

  • A gesture to the future of Afrobeat ... Made Kuti and Femi Kuti.

    Global album of the month
    Femi Kuti and Made Kuti: Legacy+ review – Afrobeat's first family look forward

    Divided into two sections, Fela Kuti’s son and grandson rework his signature sound, adding their own political commentary

January 2021

  • femi-kuti-and-made-kuti- Credit: Optimus Dammy /Partisan Records

    Different beat: how Fela Kuti’s son and grandson are modernising the dynasty

    Ahead of their new album, Femi and Made Kuti reflect on the Afrobeat pioneer’s legacy, their complex family, and the problems Nigeria still faces

November 2020

  • Parker … died at the age of 34, crippled by heroin addiction.

    'He'll make your head explode': sax stars on the genius and tragedy of Charlie Parker

    He was nicknamed Bird and he soared in his music – if not in his life. For the centenary of the saxophonist who redefined jazz, today’s players reveal how his dizzying speed and spirituality changed their lives

February 2019

  • LAGOS - Illustrated City - - PANEL 8

    The illustrated city
    'No place does me like Lagos' – a cartoon by Tayo Fatunla

    The city has endured much through the years, but as cartoonist Tayo Fatunla grew up saying: ‘Eko oni baje’ or ‘Lagos cannot be destroyed’

August 2016

  • D’Banj is joined onstage by Destiny’s Child’s Kelly Rowland at the MTV Africa Music Awards in 2008

    Gateways
    Gateways – Tony Allen and Nigeria: From Afrobeat to Afrobeats

    After Afrobeat faded and the major labels left Nigeria, a new wave of artists influenced by hip-hop revitalised the country’s music scene

June 2016

  • Melting pot … Guy Garvey

    Listen up
    Guy Garvey's Meltdown playlist: Laura Marling, Femi Kuti and Jesca Hoop

    Ahead of his festival at the Southbank Centre, the Elbow frontman picks a few tracks from the lineup’s artists and premieres his new track, Open the Door

March 2016

  • Elbow in concert at O2 Apollo, Manchester, Britain - 06 Feb 2015<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Danny Payne/REX Shutterstock (4419283g) Guy Garvey of Elbow Elbow in concert at O2 Apollo, Manchester, Britain - 06 Feb 2015

    Robert Plant, Femi Kuti and Laura Marling to play Guy Garvey's Meltdown

    Elbow frontman and BBC 6 Music DJ announces the Southbank music festival will also feature Connan Mockasin, Lift to Experience and the Staves, and there will be a theme – boats

March 2014

  • Womadelaide 2014: Crowds bask in the South Australian sun.

    Music blog
    10 things we learned at Womadelaide 2014

  • Femi Kuti

    Australia culture blog
    Femi Kuti, Shanren review – triumph from beginning to end

May 2013

  • Femi Kuti: No Place for My Dream – review

    Femi Kuti is still fighting for the same causes that his father used to, and making some interesting sounds in the process, writes Robin Denselow

October 2012

  • Guardian Africa network
    Nigeria sings new tune with opening of Fela Kuti museum

    Monica Mark in Lagos
    Monica Mark: Authorities with whom Afrobeat creator so often tangled in his lifetime turn his Kalakuta commune in Lagos into a heritage site

August 2012

  • Hypnotic Brass at Africa Express

    Africa Express: its past in pictures

    Africa Express starts making its way round the UK next week – in a train packed with musicians both African and British that departs from London on Sunday. Previous tours have been accompanied by photographer Simon Phipps – here's his pick of images from gigs in Ethiopia, Nigeria and France, taken between 2008 and 2010

July 2012

  • Femi Kuti at Womad 2012

    The Guardian's Music Podcast
    Music Weekly podcast: Womad 2012 special

  • Barrowed time … Womad festival 2012.

    Music blog
    Womad festival: how was it for you?

  • Keb Mo

    Womad preview - in pictures

  • Jamaican singer Jimmy Cliff. Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP

    Womad 2012: festival preview

May 2012

  • Femi Kuti

    Womad 2012: Femi Kuti joins Robert Plant and Jimmy Cliff at festival

    Hugh Masekela and King of Rai among artists scheduled to perform at 30th anniversary of world music festival

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