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Femi Kuti

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[Wikipedia] Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti, popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. He is the eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and a grandchild of political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti.

Quotes by Femi Kuti

Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you…

Be patient

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Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I…

Bored

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We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my…

Children

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I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would…

Day by day

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When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in…

Eye

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Whenever I'm faced with an issue, I deal with it squarely, even if I was going to fail, I try to learn…

Appreciate

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I don't smoke or drink, but I will not tell you that I won't smoke again. Probably I will when I'm 60.

Drink

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I'm not saying we are not to be held accountable. What I'm saying is that we need to appreciate past, if you…

Appreciate

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Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of…

Corruption

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Spirituality is when we can't explain everything in life, totally. So, we have a spiritual meaning for it; we don't know why…

Life

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Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used…

Criticize

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I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family.

Family

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Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk…

Ask questions

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I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we…

Father

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I don't understand, who is God. I don't understand God. But to simplify that, I will say I believe in creation. They…

Believe

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I think this my last album - No Place For My Dream - truly is my best work. My fear now is,…

Composition

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I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things…

Accepting

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I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

Believe

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It is history that has distorted our lives and complicated issues. The good thing is; whether we like it or not, a…

Appreciate

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My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough…

Children

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Now we have to understand that slavery would not have ended if it was left to the Africans alone, Now, Europe understood…

Cannibal

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Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce…

Kind

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