Years later, wielding his gold trumpet and dabbing his face with a white handkerchief, Olaiya would perform a new type of music in Nigeria that would go on to inspire a young Fela Anikulapo-Kuti ...

I.O. Ransome-Kuti (who died when Fela was seventeen) an eminent headmaster and also a notable liturgical composer ... Accounts of Fela as a young man show him as witty and energetic, with talents as a ...