Late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti has been honoured with a blue plaque in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
The honour was accorded to the late Afrobeat pioneer by English Heritage, a charity that manages historic monuments.
According to reports, an honourary blue plaque was mounted on the 12 Stanlake Road residence at Shepherd’s Bush, a district of West London, where Fela first lived when he came to the UK to study music.
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The plaque read: “Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-1997), singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer and Nigerian activist. Lived in this house as a student in 1958.”
According to English Heritage, the blue plaques link the people of the past with the buildings of the present.
With the blue plaque, the late singer joins other notable artistes who have been honoured by English Heritage including Bob Marley, the late Jamaican singer, who was honoured with a blue plaque on the house where he and The Wailers finished recording the album ‘Exodus’.
