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“Music is the weapon of the future.”
“Music is the weapon of the future.” These words of Fela Anikulapo Kuti set the tone for Fela to the Future, a special programme as part of the Minor Attractions Fair unfolding during Frieze Week 2025.
More than a musician, Fela was a revolutionary force—a cultural theorist, community-builder, and fearless critic of power. This programme reimagines his radical vision across past, present, and future tenses, drawing on Afrofuturism, diasporic aesthetics, and decolonial imagination as portals for new worlds to come.
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of Felabration and 28 years since Fela’s passing, Fela to the Future explores how music translates into visual practice, and how Fela’s sound, politics, and aesthetics continue to reverberate across generations.