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The older sibling, Yeni, shared the news on her Instagram page on Monday when she posted a video of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka holding a copy of the book. She also announced that the book could be preordered.
Her post read, ‘‘Femi and I have finally published our mum’s book, thanks to ouidabooks. It has taken us all these years. She passed on 23 years ago at the young age of 60. I am 63 now, almost 64, so I know how young that was. I hope you enjoy her account of her life with Fela’’.
Femi had announced that their mum wrote the book years ago but never published it.
The memoir explores Mrs Kuti’s turbulent years with Fela, documenting personal and shared struggles as they journeyed through fame.
‘‘The memoir is an account of my life from the day I was born before I met Fela, and after he entered it like a comet in 1959. I think of him and will, as long as I live—my love is the forever kind,’’ an excerpt from the description partly read.
The book’s description reads, ‘‘Without regret or rancour, Remilekun Anikulapo-Kuti invites us into her extraordinary life as a love interest, the wife and the estranged partner of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the Afrobeat legend.
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