Afrobeat musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti smiles at Black Maria after he was arrested by the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Military Government for illegally attempting to export £1,600 in foreign currency abroad in the year 1984.
Fela was arrested more than 200 times by various military regimes but remained imprisoned for a long time by Major General Buhari, who first came to power in a military coup in December 1983.The Afro beats legend was sentenced to five years in prison by a military court on what he always called trumped-up barter charges but was released in 1986 after General Ibrahim Babangida came to power.
