Femi Kuti Announces New Album ‘Journey Through Life’

Nigerian artist Femi Kuti‘s new album, ‘Journey Through Life’ is scheduled to drop on April 25. Accompanied by the release of a new single, ‘After 24 Years’, out now.

The record ‘After 24 years’ encapsulates reflections on family, life, and personal growth, including his journey as an artist, activist and father. And the album marks Femi’s first time producing an album entirely on his own.

He explains: “Journey Through Life is basically a summary of my life from my childhood to adulthood. All through my life family has been a solid foundation, from my parents, grandparents, to my siblings, cousins and now my children, my nieces and nephews, soon my grandchildren, and true to my song at the end of the day for me family is all that matters.”

He adds: ‘After 24 Years’ was written and the recording was completed in November 2023. It’s nearly two years after the recording was completed that the track is being released and unfortunately not much has changed except we’re now two years distant from its creation.

It summarises the last 24 years of our leadership in Nigeria (from 1999 to 2023). Since my track ‘Sorry Sorry’ was released in 1998 on the album ‘Shoki Shoki’, where I sang that our politicians and soldiers were one and the same, Nigeria went into another democratic dispensation in 1999, and true to the words of the track ‘Sorry Sorry’, our politicians have proven me right that they govern as bad if not worse than the military dictatorship.

Stay tuned for the album, but enjoy ‘After 24 years’ below.