Dede mabiaku biography
Dede mabiaku biography
How Living With FELA Shaped My Life! FELA’s Protege, DEDE ...!
How Living With FELA Shaped My Life! FELA’s Protege, DEDE MABIAKU Opens Up
When Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was alive he had a few boys he trained, who followed him everywhere he went to play and perform.
One of them was Dede Mabiaku, the son of Chief G.E. Mabiaku, the late Iyatsere of Warri who was a wealthy businessman in his lifetime.
From when he was in secondary school at Federal Government College, Warri he had grown up to be a Fela Boy.
Even in his university days, he was an ardent follower of Fela and he grew up to go and live with Fela in Lagos after his rich father disowned him and threw him out for opting to follow Fela. His father, a very strict man had wanted him to be a Lawyer and not a musician.
Dede mabiaku
It was after his father threw him out that he went to live with Fela at his Gbemisola Street, Kalakuta Republic.
That was how close Dede was to Fela in those good old days. That was how Dede became Fela’s protege.
He sings like him, dresses like him and dances like