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Fela Anikulapo Kuti honoured with a blue plaque in London

Nigeria’s world renowned musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti has been honoured with a blue plaque in London, just about two weeks after his posthumous 83rd birthday.
byTayo Aderinola
02/11/2021
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Nigeria’s world renowned musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti has been honoured with a blue plaque in London, just about two weeks after his posthumous 83rd birthday.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti has been honoured with a blue plaque in London
Fela Anikulapo Kuti has been honoured with a blue plaque in London

The honour was bestowed on him by the English Heritage, which attached the plaque on 12 Stanlake Road residence at Shepherd’s Bush, where Fela first lived when he came to London to study music.

The plaque read: Fela Anikulapo Kuti(1938-1997), singer, multi instrumentalist, composer and Nigerian activist. Lived in this house as a student in 1958″.

In 1958, Fela arrived London from Nigeria to study medicine.

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