Nigerian Afrobeat founder Fela Anikulapo Kuti was a popular musician in the 70 and he made Nigerian Afrobeat founder Fela Anikulapo Kuti was a popular musician in the 70 and he made a great career for himself before passing away. He suffered from a deadly incurable disease at his prime. Fela Kuti was born on 15th October 1938 and died on the 2nd of August, 1997.

How did Fela Die?
According to Wikipedia, “On 3 August 1997, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, already a prominent AIDS activist and former Minister of Health, announced his younger brother’s death a day earlier from complications related to AIDS. However, there has been no definitive proof that Kuti died from complications related to HIV/AIDS, and much skepticism surrounds this alleged cause of death and the sources that have popularized this claim. For example, it is widely claimed that Fela suffered and may have possibly died from Kaposi’s sarcoma, which is associated with HIV/AIDS infection. However, there are no known photos of Kuti with telltale lesions; moreover, Kuti was honored with a lying-in-state in which his remains were encased in a five-sided glass coffin for full public viewing.[ More than one million people attended Fela’s funeral at the site of the old Shrine compound. The New Afrika Shrine has opened since Fela’s death in a different section of Lagos under the supervision of his son Femi.

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