Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti has become the first African-born artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Fela Kuti, who died in 1997, used his music to express his opposition to injustice.
He pioneered the genre known as Afrobeat by combining jazz music, West African music and soul music.
This year he also became the first African to receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Fela Anikolapo Kuti was not only a musician, but also a cultural theorist, political activist and the undisputed architect of afrobeat music.
Along with drummer Tony Allen, he pioneered the afrobeat genre, combining West African rhythms, jazz, funk, highlife, large-scale improvisation, voice-over and political ballads.
During his career, which spanned nearly three decades until his death in 1997, Fela Kuti released more than 50 albums and created a body of work that combined music with ideology, rhythm with resistance, and performance with interception. 📷Leni Sinclair/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.