Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
To accompany the Spring/Summer 2019 Carhartt WIP capsule collection, which pays tribute to legendary Nigerian musician and political agitator Fela Anikulapo Kuti, we have once again collaborated with Dazed and NTS Radio.
The short film, titled One Day Go Be One Day, sees artist and filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. travel to the Nigerian capital of Lagos together with London rapper Obongjayar. The result is the experimental short, which takes cues from Fela Kuti’s spiritual roots. Read the full Dazed article here and check the film out below.
To escort the launch, we aksed NTS founder Femi Adeyemi to prepare us a Fela Kuti Carhartt WIP Radio show and also spoke to some of our friends and collaborators within the world of music, including the film’s leading figure, Obongjayar, Ruby Savage of Brownswood Recordings, British trumpet player Sheila Maurice-Grey, who is part of the young, London-based Afrobeat 8-Piece band Kokoroko, contemporary Jazz musician Henry Wu, a.k.a. Kamaal Williams, and one of Germany’s finest underground MCs, Retrogott.
We asked them to sum up what the work of Fela Kuti meant to them, and how his legacy has inspired their own work.
"We should probably be protesting against the same things that Fela protested against: corruption, repression, symbolic and cultural violence, racism."
Full Article & Interview:
carhartt-wip.com/journal/music/2019/04/one-day-go-be-one-day
More from Carhartt WIP
Official website: carhartt-wip.com
Instagram: instagram.com/carharttwip
Monthly Radio Show: soundcloud.com/carharttwip
#CarharttWIP #music #FelaKuti
To accompany the Spring/Summer 2019 Carhartt WIP capsule collection, which pays tribute to legendary Nigerian musician and political agitator Fela Anikulapo Kuti, we have once again collaborated with Dazed and NTS Radio.
The short film, titled One Day Go Be One Day, sees artist and filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. travel to the Nigerian capital of Lagos together with London rapper Obongjayar. The result is the experimental short, which takes cues from Fela Kuti’s spiritual roots. Read the full Dazed article here and check the film out below.
To escort the launch, we aksed NTS founder Femi Adeyemi to prepare us a Fela Kuti Carhartt WIP Radio show and also spoke to some of our friends and collaborators within the world of music, including the film’s leading figure, Obongjayar, Ruby Savage of Brownswood Recordings, British trumpet player Sheila Maurice-Grey, who is part of the young, London-based Afrobeat 8-Piece band Kokoroko, contemporary Jazz musician Henry Wu, a.k.a. Kamaal Williams, and one of Germany’s finest underground MCs, Retrogott.
We asked them to sum up what the work of Fela Kuti meant to them, and how his legacy has inspired their own work.
"We should probably be protesting against the same things that Fela protested against: corruption, repression, symbolic and cultural violence, racism."
Full Article & Interview:
carhartt-wip.com/journal/music/2019/04/one-day-go-be-one-day
More from Carhartt WIP
Official website: carhartt-wip.com
Instagram: instagram.com/carharttwip
Monthly Radio Show: soundcloud.com/carharttwip
#CarharttWIP #music #FelaKuti
