Olufela Olusegun Oludoton Ransome-Kuti - Fela - is born on 15 October in Abeokuta, a town fifty miles north of Lagos. Poor grammar, spellings, and punctuations were compounded by poor story telling skills. It is the mother of awful books! Ooops…Did I just call it that? Read to the end (but then, I advise you toss this book with a great heave!). With no international record deal and an economic recession gripping Nigeria, this is a difficult year for Fela. Fela begins learning the piano, encouraged by his father, who believes studying music is an essential part of a good education. That may excuse the overflowing commas as well as the poor spelling, grammar, tenses, punctuations, and the juxtapositions of American and English words that litter this “would have been great” book on the Abami Eda.

First published in 2004, this lively study on the Abami Eda looks at the context, lyrics, instrumentation, visual art and people through which the music maestro produced his music.Fela’s high-profile campaign for the right to smoke weed continues, as does police harassment of him and the Shrine.

If this short review is not enough and you still want to read Idowu’s book because I know you are as curious as the cat, I wish you well.On a visit to Lagos, Fela meets Jimo Kombi Braimah, known to everyone as JK, who will become his life-long friend and confidant. Who else can write credibly about Fela than a man who knew him from the start of his career to the end of his life? This memoir, published in 2016, is replete with anecdotes that can never be found in any book on the subject. The author dedicates the book to the memories of Sola and Fehintola Anikulapo-Kuti. However, if these damsels were alive, they would sue Erhabor for unsolicited association with a bad product. Fela is wrongfully jailed for three days giving him material for future albums, Alagbon Close and Expensive Shit.