{"id":139641,"date":"2023-08-23T04:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T04:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/?p=139641"},"modified":"2023-08-23T04:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T04:48:57","slug":"fela-would-face-arrest-in-todays-generation-by-those-celebrating-him-today-burna-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2023\/08\/23\/fela-would-face-arrest-in-todays-generation-by-those-celebrating-him-today-burna-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fela would face arrest in today&#8217;s generation by those celebrating him today&#8221; &#8211; Burna Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Burna Boy, the acclaimed singer, shares thoughts on Fela Kuti&#8217;s impact and timing in an interview with Zane Lowe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Burna Boy&#8217;s maternal grandfather managed Fela Kuti, adding a personal connection to the discussion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He appreciates that Fela lived in a different era, suggesting today&#8217;s society might not have embraced his revolutionary messages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Burna Boy believes Fela might have faced criticism and arrest calls from some who now celebrate him if he lived today.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In a recent interview with Apple Music&#8217;s Zane Lowe in New York, internationally acclaimed singer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/tag\/burna-boy\">Burna Boy<\/a><\/strong> shared his perspective on the iconic Nigerian musician <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/?s=fela+kuti\">Fela Kuti<\/a> <\/strong>and his impact on the present generation.<\/p>\n<p>The self-proclaimed &#8220;<em>African Giant&#8221;<\/em> expressed gratitude that Fela Kuti had lived and created music in a different era, suggesting that today&#8217;s society may not have been as receptive to his revolutionary messages.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139642\" style=\"width: 784px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-139642 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/burna-boy-1.png\" alt=\" Burna Boy commends Fela Kuti's absence in current generation, cites arrest calls by today's celebrators\" width=\"784\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/burna-boy-1.png 784w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/burna-boy-1-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/burna-boy-1-768x674.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Burna Boy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Burna Boy, whose maternal grandfather Beson Idonjie was Fela Kuti&#8217;s first manager, emphasized the uniqueness of the times in which Fela lived.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that Fela faced numerous challenges during his era, but Burna Boy believed that the current societal landscape might not have been conducive for Fela&#8217;s style of conscious creativity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139643\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-139643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/fela.png\" alt=\" Burna Boy commends Fela Kuti's absence in current generation, cites arrest calls by today's celebrators\" width=\"840\" height=\"1097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/fela.png 534w, https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/08\/fela-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Fela Kuti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his words;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>What I have realised is that the times are really funny. Fela in his time was going through things that, if he was here today, it might have been a whole different feeling like a whole bunch of people from Nigeria who you see today celebrating Fela, are the same people that would have been tagging the police to go and arrest Fela if there was Twitter then.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo, at the end of the day, I feel like God doesn\u2019t make mistakes. You know what I mean like the times are just perfect for everyone, you know. If he [Fela] was here today, like his career started now, he may not have the space to explore that [his conscious creativity] because there is too much in this day and age that it just doesn\u2019t interlock with the spirits. Right now, spirituality is almost non-existent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow, it [the society] is just mostly run by stupidity and ignorance. It was still the same back then [during Fela\u2019s era] but it wasn\u2019t as amplified or accessed [as it is today]. Now, everything is defined by stupidity and ignorance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the fact that he [Fela] existed in his time so that we can get an experience of the true organic nature of what he was, the essence of what he stood for and the messages he passed across to us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burna Boy, the acclaimed singer, shares thoughts on Fela Kuti&#8217;s impact and timing in an interview with Zane Lowe. Burna Boy&#8217;s maternal grandfather managed Fela Kuti, adding a personal connection to the discussion. He appreciates that Fela lived in a different era, suggesting today&#8217;s society might not have embraced his revolutionary messages. 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