{"id":125346,"date":"2026-02-02T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=125346"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:25:11","slug":"femi-kuti-opens-up-on-fathers-posthumous-grammy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/femi-kuti-opens-up-on-fathers-posthumous-grammy-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Femi Kuti Opens Up on Father\u2019s Posthumous Grammy Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Oscar Okhifo<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti has described the posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on his late father, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, as a powerful global recognition of a life dedicated to fearless resistance against dictatorship, corruption and injustice in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking from Los Angeles, United States of America on Saturday in a video that has since gone viral ahead of the 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony where the honour will be formally presented, Femi said the award acknowledges the extraordinary courage it took for Fela to confront successive military regimes at a time when many Nigerians lived in fear.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, it is often difficult for younger generations and audiences outside Nigeria to fully appreciate the dangers his father faced in the 1970s and 1980s while openly challenging state authority through music and activism.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEverybody is very happy. We\u2019re excited,\u201d Femi said, noting that the recognition validates Fela\u2019s lifelong struggle against oppression and the heavy personal sacrifices that came with it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reflecting on his father\u2019s legacy, Femi also spoke candidly about the complex realities of growing up under Fela\u2019s intense commitment to his cause. He recalled that he and his sister, Yeni Kuti, have previously described their father as a \u201cbad\u201d father in terms of physical presence, owing to his constant activism, even though he was a great man whose convictions helped shape history.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beyond the Lifetime Achievement Award, Fela\u2019s influence continues to receive global acknowledgement. In 2025, his seminal 1976 album Zombie was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, further cementing his status as one of Africa\u2019s most influential musical and political voices.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Femi, himself a six-time Grammy nominee, has spent decades carrying forward his father\u2019s musical and activist legacy, using Afrobeat as a platform to confront social and political issues while keeping Fela\u2019s message alive on the global stage.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also weighed in on the recent feud between Grammy Award-winning Nigerian singer Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, and Fela\u2019s youngest son, Seun Kuti, appealing for unity and restraint.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSeun is my younger brother and Wizkid is like a son to me. I wish the trouble didn\u2019t start at all. Fela is a great man,\u00a0 that\u2019s not in dispute. If anyone feels otherwise or says it, there\u2019s no wahala at all. Is he not being celebrated even in death now all over the world? They should just sheath their swords. We are one big family,\u201d Femi said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the son of a Reverend and mother who was\u00a0 a schoolteacher and social activist, was a revolutionary musician who confronted the powers that be at great personal cost, often sacrificing his peace and comfort in pursuit of justice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Femi said, further underscores how deeply Fela\u2019s genre, message and radical style continue to resonate decades after his demise.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oscar Okhifo Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti has described the posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on his late father, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, as a powerful global recognition of a&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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