Felabration starts today with secondary school debate
Felabration, the annual week-long festival to celebrate late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti will kicks off today with a secondary schools debate. It holds by 10am at Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos.
The debate with the topic, Reparation, Yes or No, will see students from Lagos State secondary schools slugging it out with one another.
The festival proper then continues from October 10 with a symposium tagged Movement Against 2nd Slavery, at the NECA House, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. While speakers include Ms Afiong Afiong, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, Lemi Gharioku and Adebola Williams, the event will be chaired by Mrs Sofia Oyewole.
The festivities continue till October 16 with musical concerts by various musicians at the New Africa Shrine, Agidingbi, Lagos daily. The carnival holds in Ikeja on October 15.
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