New Nigerian Cinema and African Odsseys are screening Fela NYC: Fresh From Africa at the British Film Institute on London's Southbank at 2pm on Saturday 18 August. The 90-minute Fela Kuti documentary, directed by Edward Jaheed Ashley, is a mixture of interview, reportage and performance footage, shot in New York in 1986.
All About Jazz's Chris May, the first overseas journalist to interview Kuti following the destruction of his Kalakuta Republic HQ by the Nigerian army in February 1977, will take part in a post-screening panel discussion, along with Rikki Stein, Kuti's longtime manager, and J.K. Brimah, Kuti's friend from childhood and right hand man during the 1970s and 1980s.
All About Jazz's Chris May, the first overseas journalist to interview Kuti following the destruction of his Kalakuta Republic HQ by the Nigerian army in February 1977, will take part in a post-screening panel discussion, along with Rikki Stein, Kuti's longtime manager, and J.K. Brimah, Kuti's friend from childhood and right hand man during the 1970s and 1980s.
