Najite Agindotan CV
PERFORMANCES
Annual Festival of Masks, Leimert Park, CA, since 2010
Carnival on the Shaw, Los Angeles, CA, June 30, 2024
32nd Annual Kuumba Festival, San Diego, CA, June 29, 2024
Grand Performances, California Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, June 4, 2022
The Miracle Theater, Inglewood, CA, May 25, 2019
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, Oakland, CA, June 16, 2018
Arirang Afrobeat 2016: Summer of Love, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, August 5, 2016
Radio Afrodicia, KPFK 90.7 FM, Los Angeles, CA, November 26, 2016
Tony Allen featuring Najite & Olokun Prophecy, The Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, July 21, 2013
Tony Allen featuring Najite & Olokun Prophecy, Catacomb Party, Fulton Mall, Fresno, CA, July 20, 2013
Rhythm and Joy Festival, Hummingbird Nest Ranch, Simi Valley, October 5, 2013
Glow Festival, Santa Monica, CA, September 25, 2010
Idyllwild Jazz in the Pines, Idyllwild, CA, August 29, 2009
Afro Funké NYE Bash, Zanzibar, Santa Monica, CA, December 31, 2009
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, Oakland, CA, 2008
California State Summer School for the Arts, Opening Event, Sacramento, CA, July 11, 2009
Summer Sessions, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, July 8, 2006
Why Don't You Listen?, Horace Tapscott with The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and The Great Voice Of UGMAA, live at LACMA, 1998
Omalingwo, Cast Theatre, Hollywood, CA, October 27–30, 1998
Rusefest, Marquis Public Theatre, San Diego, CA, May 16, 1992
Summer Olympics, 1984
AWARDS
City of Los Angeles Certificate of Recognition, Black History Month at City Hall, presented by Mayor Karen Bass, Los Angeles, CA 2024
2024 Recognition Award, International Day of Afro Brotherhood, 2024
The City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship, 2022
Apprenticeship Program Grant, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, 2021
Best World Music/Recombinant Artist, LA Weekly Music Awards, 2003
Congressional Award for Excellence, awarded by Representative Diane Watson, 2000
Best Musical Director, Third Annual Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Thatre Awards, 1990
PRESS
Remembering our Ancestors and Securing our Future at Festival of Masks, LA Sentinel, by Kimberly Shelby, 2022
Najite Agindotan, LA Commons, 2020
Best Drum Circle, LA Weekly, 2014
Sharing the Spirit of the Ancestors, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, by Karen Mack, Executive Director, LA Commons, 2013
At Afro Funké, global rhythm is their business, Los Angeles Times
Afro Funké at Zanzibar in Santa Monica, Los Angeles Times, by Reed Johnson, 2010
Najite Agindotan, King of the African Drums, The Ambrose Ehirim Files, 2010
Nigerian dummer’s music celebrates life, Albuquerque Journal, by David Steinberg, June 16, 2006
Najite Olokun Prophecy: Africa Before Invasion, All About Jazz, 2003
Najite Olokun Prophecy, The Pitch, by Dave Segal, 2003
The Najite Olokun Prophecy, OC Weekly, 2003
PUBLICATIONS
Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1, Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Abiodun Salawu and Israel A. Fadipe, 2022
DISCOGRAPHY & COMPOSER CREDITS
Afrobeat LA, Elsibu Music, 2022
Ask Them, Tensei, Yaw, Najite & Olokun Prophecy, Kramer, Tokyo Dawn Records, 2021
Fela Fela, Horace Tapscott With The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra And The Great Voice Of UGMAA, released in 2019, recorded in 1998
Afrobeat L’Ayeraye (Afrobeat Forever), Najite & Olokun Prophecy, 2016
Bolo-Oya, Vol. 1: Africa, recorded live at Ashkenaz, 2008
Africa Before Invasion, Najite & Olokun Prophecy, EFA & Sofa Disk, 2002
Why Don't You Listen?, Horace Tapscott with The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and The Great Voice Of UGMAA, live at LACMA, 1998
