Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti was born on 15 of October 1938 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria to the family of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement and Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, who was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers.
Fela was a talented artiste and a human rights activist which later lead to the burning of him home Kalakuta. Republic in 1977 by the NPF and Military . He passed away on the 2nd of august, 1997.
The family decided to remodel the late artiste's house on Gbemisola street, Ikeja, Lagos. The Kalakuta Museum includes a wall holding Fela's shoes, photographs of him and his family, murals and album art. It also features his room as he left it at the time of his death, with VHS tapes, a giant inflatable globe and racks of clothes hanging above a simple twin bed. Pillows and a sheet lay nearby, a remembrance of how he slept on the floor, weakened as AIDS.
On the 15th of october 2012, Fela's 74th birthday, his sons Seun and Femi and daughter Yeni celebrated the opening of the museum, which will include a boutique hotel and a rooftop lounge and concert space. The opening comes during Felabration, an annual week of concerts put on by his children to honor their father's musical legacy. Lagos state government provided $250,000 for remodeling the home into a museum
View photos of the museum Kalakuta Museum below.
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