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Fela Honored With A Blue Plaque In London
- Fela has been honored with a blue plaque at the house he lived in London
- The award was given to him by English Heritage
Ekohotblog reports that Afrobeats legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti has been honored with a blue plaque in London.
The award was given to him by English Heritage, which placed a blue plaque on the house at 12 Stanlake Road in Shepherd’s Bush, where Fela first stayed when he arrived in London to study music.
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This award is more significant because it’s coming just two weeks after his 83rd posthumous birthday.
The plaque read: Fela Anikulapo Kuti(1938-1997), singer, multi instrumentalist, composer and Nigerian activist. Lived in this house as a student in 1958″.
In 1958, Fela arrived London from Nigeria to study medicine. But he decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music.
Fela has now joined other notable music artists like Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, who have been so honoured with the blue plaque by English Heritage.
London’s famous blue plaques link the people of the past with the buildings of the present, according to the information on the website of English Heritage.
Now run by English Heritage, the London blue plaques scheme was started in 1866 and is thought to be the oldest of its kind in the world.
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