Burna Boy, a Nigerian superstar singer, has stated that it was fortunate that Fela Kuti did not exist in modern times, as his alleged followers would have denounced and demanded his imprisonment.

Burna Boy: “It's good Fela didn't exist in this generation, those celebrating him today would've been calling for his arrest”

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This comment was made by Burna in a recent interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe in New York.

Burna Boy, whose maternal grandfather Beson Idonjie was Fela Kuti's first manager, argued that it was advantageous for Fela to exist in the generation he did because he was able to use music to communicate his message.

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He said;

“What I have realized is that the times are really funny. Fela in his time was going through things that, if he was here today, it might have been a whole different feeling like a whole bunch of people from Nigeria who you see today celebrating Fela, are the same people that would have been tagging the police to go and arrest Fela if there was Twitter then.

So, at the end of the day, I feel like God doesn’t make mistakes. You know what I mean like the times are just perfect for everyone, you know. If he [Fela] was here today, like his career started now, he may not have the space to explore that [his conscious creativity] because there is too much in this day and age that it just doesn’t interlock with the spirits. Right now, spirituality is almost non-existent.

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Now, it [the society] is just mostly run by stupidity and ignorance. It was still the same back then [during Fela’s era] but it wasn’t as amplified or accessed [as it is today]. Now, everything is defined by stupidity and ignorance.

I’m grateful for the fact that he [Fela] existed in his time so that we can get an experience of the true organic nature of what he was, the essence of what he stood for and the messages he passed across to us.”