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He's the first African musician to get a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award : Goats and Soda - NPR

He's the first African musician to get a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award : Goats and Soda - NPR

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor.

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Awarding Fela Kuti a posthumous Grammy is a bittersweet recognition of how the capitalist music industry only values revolutionary voices like his when it's safe, profitable, and marketable. Fela's unwavering resistance against oppressive regimes and his fusion of art with political activism are reminders that true art is a form of struggle against the systemic inequities of our world. Let's not sanitize his legacy into a trophy; instead, let it inspire a relentless fight against the global capitalist system that continues to silence dissenting voices while it feasts on their cultures.

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