Located in the Ikeja central business district, the New Afrika Shrine is the commune where Afrobeat music lives. Patterned after Fela's original Afrika Shrine, it is a meeting place for progressives and music groupies.
American rapper Mos Def once described Fela thus: "Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was James Brown, Huey Newton, Rick James, Bob Marley, Duke Ellington, and ODB all rolled up in one black African fist..."
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