Date: Friday, 22nd of May

Location: Round Table Books CIC, 10-11 Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PR (next to Honest Burger)

Time: 18:30 - 21:00

The ticket price is redeemable for a copy of Black Fish on the night.

Fela: Music as a Weapon is a magical-realism journey through the life and times of the legendary Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti. His anti-colonial, anti-fascist viewpoint is all the more important today than ever.

In 2025, Jibola Fagbamiye co-created FELA: Music Is the Weapon, an acclaimed graphic-novel biography of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti, written with Conor McCreery. The book reimagines Fela’s life through magical realism, Afro-futurist symbolism, and political storytelling, positioning art itself as an act of resistance.

Fela focuses on a pivotal moment in his life, when he and his mother Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, the renowned Nigerian suffrage activist, were ruthlessly attacked in their own home by soldiers who suffered no repercussions for their violence. It also explores Fela’s complex relationship with women, including his mother and Sandra Izsadore, the American singer and activist who revitalised and inspired him.

Jibola Fagbamiye is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary visual artist, illustrator, and storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of African history, political resistance, and North American pop culture. Working across mixed media, digital illustration, and graphic design, he blends the visual language of propaganda posters, pop art, and comics to interrogate power, identity, consumerism, and cultural mythology.

Conor McCreery is the swashbuckling Canadian wordsmith behind the Kill Shakespeare series (IDW), an action-adventure take on the Bard’s characters that spawns six volumes, a stage play, and a board game. McCreery has told stories for brands like Adventure Time, Regular Show, Assassin’s Creed, and more. His latest projects include Fela: Music is the Weapon, the young adult adventure The Last Witch (BOOM!Box), the coming-of-age tale Status (Scholastic), and the horror-comedy Trickster (Twisted Publications!).

Books and refreshments from Round Table’s Bar will be available for purchase on the night.