She Called Me "FELA" Because of How This Afro Beat

On this date in 1938 Fela Kuti was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. He is most famously known as the creator of afrobeat music but he was also a human rights activist and political leader in his homeland of Nigeria.