Femi Kuti – After 24 Years

Femi Kuti’s After 24 Years is a brass-fueled reckoning wrapped in grooves you can’t outrun. The track, from his self-produced album Journey Through Life, marries fiery horn blasts and punchy keyboards with lyrics that skewer Nigeria’s political circus—proving some prophecies, even when you wish they didn’t. Kuti’s voice swings between preacher and poet, threading personal grit (“forgive yourself, but never forget”) with communal rage. Recorded in Lagos and mixed in Paris, the song’s production feels raw yet polished, like a diamond dragged through gravel.
Out April 25 via Partisan Records, the album revisits older tracks with fresh bile, cementing Femi’s role as Afrobeat’s eternal watchdog.