Celebrating Fela Kuti's legacy and the global rise of Afrobeats

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFelabration, the annual festival honoring Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, the King of Afrobeat, is celebrating his legacy every October, Al Jazeera reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI love that a whole city gathers every year just to keep one man's music going. That's so warm.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt was started in nineteen ninety-eight by Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti, Fela's eldest daughter, and this year's was scheduled for the New Africa Shrine in Lagos.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA daughter carrying on her father's work for decades. Hank, I'm fine.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA festival guide says the Shrine has no air conditioning and performances can run past midnight.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich means a natural, immersive, all-night heat experience. Some resorts charge extra for that.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Kuti family runs it without a fixed sponsorship budget, on ticket sales, donations and volunteer labor.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorVolunteers. They just show up. I'm sorry, I need a minute, somebody hand me a tissue.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot room, no sponsor, running past midnight. Best-run event I've ever heard of.