Felabration which is in its 15th edition is the annual celebration of the life and times of the late musical
icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti. This year’s event which promises to be bigger will
take place in October.
The Events for this year’s festival include:
The Senior Secondary Schools Debate, the debate which is in its 2nd edition
will have senior secondary students from private and public schools in Lagos.
The topic for the debate is “Social Media in Africa; good or bad”. This will take
place on 9th October 2012 at the Freedom Park, Lagos. The maiden edition was
won by Vivian Fowler School for Girls.
The Symposium tagged The Fela Debates with the “Corruption and the Next
Generation”. This will take place on Monday 15th October which incidentally
Fela’birthday.. Speakers like Prof Wole Soyinka, Dr Femi Falana, Carlos Moore,
Prof Osinbajo, HE Fmr Gov of Cross River State, Mr Donald Duke, Mr Ben
Murray Bruce and a host of others have spoken on various topics.
The Felabration Carnival is a multicultural setting which includes people
dressed in various Nigerian ethnic attires on well decorated floats. This carnival
is aimed at reflecting the uniqueness of African dress sense. This will take place
on Saturday October 21st 2012.
The Musical Concerts will take place from Tuesday October 16th – Sunday
October 22nd 2012. Artist from all over the world will be on the bill to perform
for the 6 days.
The Fela Week Partners, we are having various outlets Pan-Nigeria that partner
with the planning committee to showcase various entertaining, educating and
culture concepts. The programmes range from musical concerts, film festivals,
photo exhibitions amongst others.
Felabration is endorsed by the Lagos State Government and included in the
Event calendar.