Felabration

Felabration is an annual festival dedicated to the promotion of Afrobeat and African culture and to the preservation of the legend and artistry of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. It is an annual festival commemorating the life and times of legendary Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, whose music and ideologies transcended all boundaries.The week-long event featuring various Nigerian, African and international artistes, including Street Floats, “Felamatrics”, the unique Fela Trivia Competition, Exhibitions and other exciting activities to relive and honour his memory and contributions to the evolution of African emancipation and Afro Beat genre.

Felabration 2009 tagged The Black President for coinciding with the year America elected its first black president. This name was also a tribute to Fela during and after his lifetime. As an Afro beat maestro, poet, philosopher and social critic, Fela became a hero to many.Felabration 2009 is to celebrate his ideologies and his contributions to the Nigerian society through his political ideology, social emancipation and empowerment of Nigerians and the black race as a whole.

This edition is the 12th in the annual series and it has been listed and endorsed as a tourism calendar event by the Lagos State ministry of Tourism. The festival is marketed globally and lots of artists have shown interest,apart from the likes of Rolling Dollar, at least 10 other artistes are billed to perform at the event. They include Pabio, Flow, Ajayi Brothers Gap band, Plus One, Bean Pole and Black Image.Some of the dance groups expected to also perform during the show are 24 Fever DNMT, Flavour and Audu of Krazee Kulture.The King of World Beat Otunba Sunday Ishola Adeniyi Adegeye a.k.a. King Sunny Ade, Afro Juju creator Sir Shina Peters, Weird MC and others have confirmed that they will perform at the week-long celebration.

FELABRATION 2009 aims to highlight this important aspect of his career by introducing the first symposium discussion led by eminent Nigerians from various disciplines to discuss on the topic of "The Social and Political Influence of Fela on our society".topic of "The Social and Political Influence of Fela on our society".The likes of Odia Ofeimun had delivered lectures in honour of the Late Fela Anikulapo since the event started.