Fela Kuti is dead, The Africa Shrine is gone But Fela's political and musical legacy lives on. Under the guidance of Femi Kuti, The New Africa Shrine was opened in Lagos not long after Fela Kuti's death in 1997. Afrobeat pounds through the speakers. The New Africa Shrine, much like the old, remains the spiritual center of the defiant music that permeated Africa and beyond, and a rallying point for activists in Nigeria today.