The rich history of the Kuti dynasty was brought ... societal judgments, and Fela’s controversial decisions—most notably, his choice to marry 27 women in one day. Despite these challenges ...

particularly in the figure of Kuti’s passionate, controversial father, Fela Kuti. Femi himself started out in the early 1980s as a member of his late father’s band Egypt 80 and has stuck ...

with his father being the Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and his grandmother being political campaigner and women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. But Kuti is also great in his own right.