“My name is Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Fela means, he who emanates greatness, Anikulapo means, one who has death in his pouch, Kuti means, one who never dies. I grew up in Europe, everything was European background; the teachings, schools. My father was a pastor, and we were thought everything in English Language. We were not even allowed to speak our country’s languages in schools, they called our own languages vernacular, so English was the rare language we had to speak in school. Everything was English. Nobody was thinking whether to be African or not we just accepted that we were English. It was in England I began to feel the awareness of how to regain Africa; I became aware that we Africans had nothing to offer there because we were just taught English”
Fela Anikulapo Kuti