Olufemi Sanyaolu is from a certain place, he's a known thing. Thought "Keziah Jones" yeah, that's just a whole new me. I saw the name in a magazine, some old woman called Keziah, added Jones on the end of it. Here, amidst the children of the business class and the political elite,16 year old Femi began to develop the persona that what would become Keziah Jones. He went to prep school in Gloucestershire followed by 4 years at Millfield, the international public school. In 1977, he was dispatched to the UK where he's been based ever since. Every Lagos family's got someone who ran off to join Fela.' I remember hearing about a family member who had ran off and joined him. 'I would look through the car window I could sometimes see him in the yard. On his way to school, the young Femi would pass by the Kalakuta Republic, the great bandleader Fela Kuti's legendary commune, home to his Afrika 70 musicians, wives and hangers-on. ![]() ![]() Born in 1968 in Yaba, Central Lagos, Keziah Jones aka Captain Rugged aka Olufemi Sanyaolu grew up in a large middle class family.
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