- Kuti's drummer Tony Allen is given a shout-out in "Music Is My Radar" by Blur, with the line "Tony Allen got me dancing".
- Paul McCartney visited Kuti and his band in 1972 in Lagos, Nigeria and called it one of the best performances he saw in his life. He tried to sign Kuti up on his label and draw more attention to the musician and the troubles of his country, but Kuti distrusted him.
- Brian Eno once said he owned more albums by Fela than by any other artist and that he listened to him 'over and over again'.
- Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil says that meeting Fela in Lagos changed his life ('I felt like I was a tree replanted and able to flourish').
- One of the B-sides of Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik is called "Fela's Cock".
- One of the outtakes from Talking Heads' Remain in Light is called "Fela's Riff".
- The novel Beasts of No Nation - and, by extension, The Film of the Book (Beasts of No Nation) - is named after one of his albums.
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