"Wow": Five interesting facts about Fela Kuti, Afrobeat Giant
✔️His father was responsible for the primary education of Obasanjo. Fela's father Mr Ransome Kuti was known then as "Baba gbomgbomo"(the man that steals children) because he use to steal children away from the streets and their mother's house and take them to school to learn...one of those who benefited from this was Olusegun Obasanjo. ✔️Fela was predestined to be who he is today. In an interview his mother, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti said an ifa priest had already told her and husband about the destiny of the Fela when he was a child that he would be very stubborn and he would challenge government. For this, his father took extra interest in his education hoping it would lead to one of two things, (1) that the education would change him or (2) even if he was going to challenge the government he do it as an activist and not a hooligan. ✔️Fela did not start smoking at a young age infact he was still a well behaved young man until his early 20s. ✔️Fela loved s*x, in a book...