Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9780819575395
Pub Date: 05 Jun 2015
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 42 illus.
Description:
Fela: Kalakuta Notes is an evocative account of Fela Kuti - the Afrobeat superstar who took African music into the arena of direct action. With his antiestablishment songs, he dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism and the down-trodden Nigerian masses, or "sufferheads." In the 1970s, the British/Ghanaian musician and author John Collins met and worked with Fela in Ghana and Nigeria.