Fela has been honoured with a blue plaque in London.
Gatekeepers News reports that Nigeria’s world renowned musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti was honoured Monday in London, just about two weeks after his posthumous 83rd birthday.
The honour was bestowed on him by the English Heritage, which attached a blue plaque on 12 Stanlake Road residence at Shepherd’s Bush, where Fela first lived when he came to London to study music.
The plaque read: Fela Anikulapo Kuti(1938-1997), singer, multi instrumentalist, composer and Nigerian activist. Lived in this house as a student in 1958″.
In 1958, Fela arrived London from Nigeria to study medicine. But he decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music.
Fela has now joined other notable music artists who have been so honoured with the blue plaque by English Heritage.
