MRS. KUTI

This is an account of my life from the day I was born, before I met Fela, and after he entered it like a comet in 1959. Without regret or rancour, Remilekun Anikulapo-Kuti invites us into her extraordinary life as a love interest, the wife and the estranged partner of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the Afrobeat legend. Her writing takes us from years in a home for orphaned children in the English Midlands, to London where she met the dashing Fela at a party, to moving to Nigeria where Remilekun navigates culture shock, the complexities of love, loss, and the joys of motherhood. With unabating honesty, Remilekun shares her journey, her thoughts on marriage, justice, music and Nigerian society from the 60s to the 90s. “I think of him and will, as long as I live—my love is the forever kind.”