Music Custodian joined the Week 7 programming of Afrobeat Rebellion, the acclaimed multi-week exhibition dedicated to tracing, preserving, and reinterpreting Fela Kuti’s legacy for a new generation.
Held from Thursday to Sunday, the exhibition invited audiences into the intimate layers of Fela’s life, music, politics, and cultural influence ; a space that continues to evolve with each week’s curated experiences.
As Afrobeat Rebellion continues to unfold, Music Custodian remains honoured to be part of the storytelling , to continue amplifying conversations that carry the past into the future, and documenting the evolving architecture of African sound and culture.
Last Friday, the exhibition hosted one of its most anticipated legacy sessions: “The Life of a Song: From Creative Performance to Creative Ownership” — a music business and creative industry panel moderated by Deji Osikoya, featuring Made Kuti (Grammy-nominated musician, multi-instrumentalist, and torchbearer of the Kuti lineage) and Uzor Daniel (Sony Music Publishing).
The conversation navigated the journey of a song, as it moves from inspiration to performance, documentation, publishing, ownership, and long-term cultural impact. Attendees engaged actively, contributing questions and reflections around artistry, AI’s emerging role in music, the realities of publishing, writing, production workflows, and the unseen labour behind the music ecosystem.
Following the panel, Music Custodian conducted an exclusive, in-depth interview with Made Kuti — a powerful, subversive, deeply reflective conversation exploring lineage, legacy, sound, philosophy, identity, independence, and the future of Afrobeat (in the original sense of Fela’s genre and ideology). This will be published as part of the media powerhouse’s upcoming Music Custodian Sessions, a signature sitdown with African creators championing excellence across the continent and diaspora through music and its media.
It was a rare moment of access into his mind, merging creative process with political clarity. Our team documented the session through on ground photography and social media coverage, capturing the energy of the exhibition, the resonance of audience engagement, and the intimacy of Made, Uzor and Deji’s insight.
