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Femi Kuti on humanitarian trip to IDP’s camp in Adamawa
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By Collins Yakubu-hammer
Abuja, Feb. 21, 2017 (NAN) Afrobeat and Jazz super star, Femi Anikulapo-Kuti, is taking time off music for a humanitarian work in the Internally Displaced Persons Camps (IDP’s) in Adamawa State.
Kuti, tweeted on his twitter handle on Tuesday, @femiakuti, “Off to Adamawa to continue my humanitarian work with the IRC in the IDP camps.’’
He had embarked on similar visit in January to Maiduguri.
He was there on a trip with the International Rescue Commission to help the displaced people settle in new communities and build medical facilities.
Femi said then that he hoped that more celebrities will lend their voices to the cause and pressure government to find a lasting solution to their plight.
For a very long time, Femi has been using music to inspire, change and motivate African people and Like his father, Fela, he had shown strong commitment to social and political causes in his career.
He was born Olufela Olufemi, but popularly known as Femi Kuti, on June 16, 1962 in London, United Kingdom and raised in Lagos.
He is the eldest son of the legend and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and a grandchild of a political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti.
Femi’s musical career started when he began playing in his father’s band, `Egypt 80’.
In 1986, he started his own band, `Positive Force’ and began establishing himself as an artist, independent of his father’s massive legacy.
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Edited Ekemini Ladejobi
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