But Fela Kuti will be the first African to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, albeit posthumously. The award was first ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three decades after his death, the “father of Afrobeat” Fela Kuti has made history by becoming the first African to get a Lifetime ...