Lagos Govt Opens Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Kalakuta Republic Museum

Afrobeat legend's Kalakuta Republic on Gbemisola Street has been opened as ‘Kalakuta Republic’ Museum by the Lagos State Government led by Barrister Babatunde Raji Fashola.

The museum houses all Fela’s memorabilia, including his clothes, shoes, equipment and other items. The event was tagged soft opening, according to Fela’s daughter, Yeni Kuti.

The museum consists of his bedroom, sitting rooms, photographs, with over 3,000 of Fela’s clothes on display.

She said the hotel and other aspects of the museum will be commissioned later. Yeni said the public will be able to see the last bedsheet Fela used before he died in 1997, his saxophone and others.

Fela’s producer and artist, Lemmy Gariokwu, the curator of the museum, said by the time other necessary things have been put in place people will be seeing Fela as in his real life.