Shocking: After 20 years of his death, Fela appears to daughter
In a radio show with Jimi Disu on Classic FM 97.3 Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s first daughter, Yeni said the Federal Government should consider adopting traditional African medicine (also known as ‘juju’) as a tool for fighting corruption, especially in official circles.
“It’s 20 years since my father died, but it doesn’t seem as if he has been gone for so long. I miss him and I still talk to him in my mind. He and other departed members of my family have also appeared to me in my dreams. I don’t know if it is right to say that they appear to me, but I see them in my dreams. I dream of them a lot.”
A self-confessed ‘free thinker’ with a bias for ATR, Yeni also disclosed that some people had come to her in the past and claimed they had messages from her father. But she never listened to them. “I believe in life after death. Also, I believe that if my father has a message for me, he will come directly to me and not go through someone I don’t know or like. If anybody tells me that Fela has sent a message to me through him, I would tell him to ask my dad to appear to me directly himself,” she said.
Oluwayeni Anikulapo-Kuti popularly known as Yeni Kuti is a dancer, singer and descendant of the Ransome-Kuti family. She pioneered the idea of Felabration, a music festival conceived to celebrate the life and contributions of her father Fela Anikulapo Kuti to the Nigerian society.
The 56-year-old and first daughter of the late ‘Afrobeat’ pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti was born in England to a British mother.
Yeni left England for Nigeria at the age of two where she completed her basic and secondary education.
She holds a diploma in journalism after she graduated from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism.
Yeni joined her brother’s (Femi Kuti) band in 1986, as a singer and dancer after dropping her job as a fashion designer. She currently serves as a co-manager of the New Afrika Shrine alongside her brother Femi Kuti.
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