FELA KUTI AND LINDSAY DONALD

Photographs I took in 1977 of the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and pioneer of Afrobeat, the late, great, Mr Fela Anikulapo Kuti, were destroyed when soldiers raided his house in Lagos, Nigeria, where I was also staying, and burnt it to the ground

Amongst those images were also images of Mr. Stevie Wonder performing with Fela at his club, The African Shrine.
After the incident at Fela's home I was incarcerated for five months on the grounds of being a CIA spy.
I was blessed once again, when in 1995, Fela came to London to give a lecture.
After a good laugh about the old days, I was to photograph him some two years before he died.
Those photographs are embargoed and will adorn the book, PORTRAIT OF A LEGEND AND OTHER FOLKS, due to be published in August, 2012.

A LITTLE ABOUT LINDSAY DONALD

In 1974 I returned to Jamaica and got a job as a runner on the set of The Marijuana Affair, http://reggaefilms.blogspot.com/2008/10/marijuana-affair-1975-comming-soon.html which was being filmed in Kingston starring the late Calvin Lockhart. It was at this time that I met Bob Marley at 56 Hope Road, Marley's recording studio. After a year in Jamaica, I left to tour Africa and was to spend three years travelling across the Sahara Desert, teaching in Ghana, photographing the Nigerian FESTAC Festival and because of my friendship with the Nigerian musician Fela Ransome Kuti, I was incarcarated in a Lagos detention centre for five months in the same cell with Lieutenant Colonel Buka Suka Dimka, the man who led an abortive military coup against the Nigerian president, General Murtala Ramat Mohammed and who subsequently was later executed.