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Professor Hindu (born Kwaku Addai) is a Ghanaian magician, healer and close spiritual associate of the late Nigerian Afrobeat musician, Fela Kuti.
Education and career
editProfessor Hindu was born in 1935 and attended Akyem Oda Government Primary and Middle Schools. He claims that he discovered his gift when he was seven years old.[1] He learned tailoring after completing school. However, he gave it up for the more lucrative work as a magician.[2]
Fela Kuti invited Professor Hindu to Lagos in 1981, and he became Fela's spiritual adviser. That year, Fela renamed his Afrika 70 band as Egypt 80.[3] It was reported that Professor Hindu "reportedly hacked open one man's throat and fatally shot another" on his assignment at Fela's New Afrika Shrine. The two persons were allegedly revived.[4]
Controversy
editIn 2014, English journalist Suzanne Moore recounted hearing that Hindu had attempted to cut his own throat in a bar in London. She dismissed Hindu's performance as "amateurish" but Fela would not take lightly to that.[clarification needed][5] According to music historian John Collins, Fela was arrested for money laundering because Hindu promised and failed to make the money disappear.[clarification needed][6] Another Fela biographer Benson Idonije stated that Hindu's spiritual power was supposed to be for entertainment purpose but it won Fela over.[clarification needed][7]
References
edit- ^ "Meet the 82-year-old-man who has not visited the hospital in 32 years". GhanaWeb. 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ @KwakuAddai14 (December 18, 2020). "Professor Hindu-Kwaku Addai" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "1981". Fela Kuti. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "Professor Hindu, the corpse-reviving sorcerer who was once Fela Kuti's 'spiritual advisor'". DangerousMinds. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "For years, I wondered what Fela Kuti had really done to that man on stage". New Statesman. 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ "Fela Through Ghanaian Eyes | The Mantle". www.themantle.com. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
- ^ Iwuala, Amarachukwu (2017-11-22). "Fela – a first-hand encounter". This is africa. Retrieved 2022-05-08.