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Wide shot of the stage at the shrine, fire works display ushering in the afro-beat musician Femi Kuti2. Mid of Femi Kuti on the keyboard3....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003emusic/video/performance rights must be cleared\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLagos, Nigeria - October 18, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of the stage at the shrine, fire works display ushering in the afro-beat musician Femi Kuti\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of Femi Kuti on the keyboard\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of stage, dancers\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (English) Femi Kuti, Afro-beat musician\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's not my father's story, It's a story of the emancipation of the African people, it's a story against fighting against corruption, it's a story against fighting against injustice, it's a story that, knowing that we have all the mineral resources in Africa and we are so poor.\"\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of Femi Kuti, singing \"Truth One Die Ooo!!!\" (meaning truth is dead)\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (English) Femi Kuti, Afro-beat musician\u003cbr/\u003e\"The creator gave him a gift to spread a message through music to fight against injustice and he never changed for anybody...So when you hear a story like that, it's like a story you read in the Bible of maybe David, or Solomon, or Jesus Christ or any great person. So people admire him for his bravery. People knew Fela had many chances to compromise.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various performance Femi Kuti \"I Sorry, Sorry O O, I Sorry for Nigeria\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Femi Kuti, Afro-beat musician\u003cbr/\u003e\"To put all this into musical terms might be very complicated, You will definitely not get airplay, so you will find it more difficult as an artist passing this kind of message, my album 'Fight To Win' already was banned.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of Femi Kuti on stage\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Femi Kuti, Afro-beat musician\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now some songs I have to be very hard....and I know they would not get airplay but on the street they are very very popular songs, like a song like 'Shotan' which will directly accuse a leader of being corrupt, but I know I will never get airplay for that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of Femi Kuti performing \"Shotan\" on stage, as the crowd get crazy in the night frenzy\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Femi Kuti, Afro-beat musician\u003cbr/\u003e\" Afro-beat will continue mobilizing the minds of people, slowly it's getting stronger, slowly Afro-beat is becoming a force to be reckoned with.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13 Various of Femi Kuti performing ''Shotan'' \u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (English) Chike Nwagboju, Performing artist and fan of Femi Kuti\u003cbr/\u003e\"Africa for Africans, one world, peace, ...that's what we believe in, that is what felabration is all about, that is what Fela stands for.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Femi Kuti, Afro-beat musician\u003cbr/\u003e\"You can't have the news without music, you can't have drama without music, everything is music.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various of Femi Kuti performing with a band from Benin Republic\u003cbr/\u003eMusician Femi Kuti paid homage to his late father Fela Anikulapo Kuti at the recent Felabration event which took place in Lagos, Nigeria from the 12-17th October.\u003cbr/\u003eDubbed The Black President, the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti is deemed responsible for creating the synthesis of pop and jazz fueling Afrobeat and served as one of the staunchest critics of military rule in oil-rich Nigeria.\u003cbr/\u003eNow the focus of a Broadway musical, Fela's mysticism, voracious marijuana consumption and sexual exploits are reaching a new audience and fueled a reissue of his albums.\u003cbr/\u003eFemi, says the celebration isn't just limited to honoring his father:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's not my father's story, it's a story of the emancipation of the African people, it's a story against fighting against corruption, it's a story against fighting against injustice, it's a story that, knowing that we have all the mineral resources in Africa and we are so poor.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut Femi Kuti, 48, learned from the excesses of his flawed rebel father. A two-time Grammy nominee, Kuti found his own voice amid the growing noise in a Nigeria where freedom of speech exists like never before in his lifetime, as well as a sustained commercial and worldwide following.\u003cbr/\u003eThe delicate balance of commercial success under the heading of world music helps Kuti and sister Yeni Kuti to keep open the New Afrika Shrine, a relocated version of the Shrine that their father lived and played in. \u003cbr/\u003eThe original Shrine, raided repeatedly by police and later the military during Fela's life, burned to the ground.\u003cbr/\u003eThe new Shrine sits near the base of state government power in Lagos, Nigeria's sprawling and exhaust-smoked megacity of 14 million on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. There have been noise complaints over the years, but nothing like the fury that followed Fela when he lambasted the businessmen and politicians looting the OPEC-member nation.\u003cbr/\u003eThe struggle continues \"was the slogan of the leaders. Those who will be eating the pie, not those who are getting killed for the pie,\" Fela said. \"The leaders of the African freedom struggle will always want the struggle to continue. For them, it means traveling around on first-class tickets and being given VIP treatment wherever they go.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFela died in 1997 of complications brought on by AIDS, a disease that sapped his energy to perform in his last years and one he dismissed in song calling protected sex \"unnatural.\" Today, a giant red placard at the Shrine warns concertgoers that \"AIDS is real\" and son Femi Kuti has appeared in awareness advertising.\u003cbr/\u003eKuti also brings a business mentality to his music. He acknowledges some songs critical of the nation's supposedly democratically elected government won't get airplay on Nigerian radio stations leery of losing their licenses, so he fashions apolitical tracks as well. \u003cbr/\u003eHe even offered his voice as a DJ on a funk radio station in the violent video game franchise \"Grand Theft Auto IV.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHis songs offer a pop-like, frenetic pacing at times, such as the driving backbeat of love story in \"Beng Beng Beng.\" But others, like \"Shotan,\" carry an angry political message inside the pulsing rhythm: \"Say the government of Obasanjo, go carry all of us go for hell.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFemi is adament that the music will continue to speak for itself:\u003cbr/\u003e\" Afro-beat will continue mobilizing the minds of people, slowly it's getting stronger, slowly Afro-beat is becoming a force to be reckoned with, '' he says, adding \"You can't have the news without music, you can't have drama without music, everything is 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