Professor Hindu
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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
[edit]Professor 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
[edit]In 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.