Fela Ransome Kuti is a significant icon of African culture. His music captures the hopes and tensions of nation-building and democracy in Africa. He gave a voice to the tribulation of the common man in Africa and for that he was dearly loved by the people who referred to him as their first black president. In the process, he also became an immense icon of black cultural life. His musical accomplishment, his radical politics and his frequent imprisonment by the Nigerian government turned him into an icon of civil rights. However, his marriage to twenty-seven wives and his habit of performing in bikinis was also a constant topic of discussion. The fact that he died of Aids on August 27, 1997 raised questions not only about his sexual life, Aids but sexual practices in Africa itself. Fela Kuti is a good entry for us to deconstruct the social, political, scientific and philosophical assumptions which transformed a black icon into a representation of savage sexuality and deviancy to trace the history of race and sex as it pertains to the discourse of race and deviant sex and the representation and assumptions about the black body today.