Nigerian superstar Fela Kuti performs at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, Michigan, in 1986. In the past year, the late musician has received two historic honors: the first African artist to receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and to be named for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Leni Sinclair/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives hide caption toggle caption Leni Sinclair/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives Editor's note: This is an update of the profile published in December of the great African musician Fela Kuti. The original post was published when it was announced that Kuti would become the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Now this week, he is on the list of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and again is a historic "first" — the first African musician to be inducted into the hall. Fela Kuti, the Afrobeat pioneer and activist who died in 1997, is now holds two landmark honors.…