‘’Finding Fela’’ is an African Movie that tells the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life, his music, his social and political importance.
With the Slogan ‘’Music is the Weapon’’, he created a new musical movement in the genre of AfroBeat and used the forum to express his revolutionary political opinions against dictatorial tendencies of the Nigerian government in the 1970s and 1980s.
Fela’s influence helped bring a change towards democracy in Nigerian and promised Pan Africanist politics to the world. His potency and power in the messages he disseminated is used till date by political movements of oppressed people thereby embracing Fela’s music and message in the struggle for freedom.
This African movie will be showing at the National Theatre on Tuesday January 22nd, starting 7:30pm and entrance is only UGX10K.
