Yeni Kuti, a media personality, has revealed that her late father and pioneer of Afrobeats, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, was admitted into the Trinity College of Music, London, in 1958, out of pity.
She explained that Fela struggled the most among his siblings in terms of academic grades, and because of that, his parents wanted him to remain in Nigeria, but his older siblings in London deceived their parents into believing that they had secured admission for him to study medicine.
She stated that when Fela got to London, he was almost rejected by Trinity College of Music due to his poor qualifications, but the admission officer pitied him because he had traveled overseas to study.
Speaking in a recent episode of the TVC programme, Your View, Kuti said, I want to share a story about my father Fela.
When he was in secondary school, you know his parents were academics, so they were pressuring him to study hard. His older brother and sister had gone to university overseas.