How Three Months In Same Cell With Fela Changed My Life
"The Walls Became A Canvas" — How Three Months In The Same Cell With Fela Kuti At Ikoyi Prison Changed British-Nigerian Author Majemite Jaboro's Life Forever By Hotgist9ja Entertainment Desk Picture this. It is 1993. Nigeria is under military rule. The air in Lagos is thick with tension, fear and the kind of silence that only comes when people are too afraid to speak. And inside the walls of Ikoyi Prison — one of Nigeria's most infamous correctional facilities — a young British-Nigerian man finds himself sharing a cell with the most dangerous, most electrifying, most unapologetically alive human being he has ever encountered in his life. His name is Majemite Jaboro. And the man in the cell with him is Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. What happened in that cell over the next three months — the conversations, the revelations, the raw unfiltered truths that poured out of the Afrobeat legend like music itself — has now been captured in one of the most remarkable boo...