- Had he been alive, he would have been seventy come this year. But, since his passage into eternity on Saturday, August 2, 1997, eleven years ago, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, ‘the strange one’ image has grown in leaps and bounds. While his death which the cause was given in press statement by his elder brother, Nigeria’s erstwhile Minister of Health, Professor Olikoye Ransome Kuti, his fans remember him for many reasons. To some, he was an activist, a rebel against draconian authority, a simpleton and egalitarian fellow. To others, he was the troublemaker, poking his nose into business that didn’t concern him. And many parents rightly saw as a wrong pointer as regards mo…