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With Nigeria's Fela Kuti, African music enters the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Headline via RFI · first report 15 Nov, 16:48 IST, latest 15 Nov, 17:27 IST

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For the first time in its history, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has honoured a major figure in African music. Nigeria's Fela Kuti was inducted on Saturday evening during a ceremony in Los Angeles, nearly thirty years after his death, consecrating the musical…
The honour comes in the same year that the Recording Academy presented Fela with its Lifetime Achievement Award, making him the first African artiste to receive the recognition. The post Fela becomes first African solo artiste inducted into Rock & Roll Hall…

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