Fela Anikunlapo's Death Is Best Time For Him To Die - Burna Boy.
Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, aka Burna Boy, has said it is good that the late afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti, didn't exist in this generation because most of the people revering him today would have criticized and called for his arrest. He said it was good that he existed for the period he did, which offered him the opportunity to pass on the kind of messages his songs carried. Burna Boy, whose maternal grandfather, Benson Idonjie, was Fela Kuti's first manager, stated this in a recent interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe in New York. According to him: "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