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Part 2 - Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the sack of Kalakuta Republic

by Chris May
September 4, 2009

Part 1 of the Afrobeat Diaries looked at the circumstances surrounding Fela Kuti's 1974 album Alagbon Close (Jofabro), the first of Kuti's discs so explicitly to expose the brutality and injustice then, as now, rampant among the Nigerian police and judiciary. Part 2 first relates the consequences of that brave album, which began ...