Fela Meets Sandra Izsadore in Los Angeles

During a 1969 American tour, Fela Kuti spent months in Los Angeles where he met Sandra Izsadore, who immersed him in Black Power literature and the politics of the African-American freedom movement. Wikidata records Izsadore as a significant person in Fela's life from this period. The encounter is widely credited with politicizing his music and helping crystallize afrobeat as a vehicle for protest; this node is anchored to Lagos as the place the transformed music came home to.