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Fela Kuti

Band leader, provocateur and architect of Afrobeat’s charged dialogue between rhythm and politics.

LIFE
1938–1997
COUNTRY
Nigeria
LANGUAGES
English, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin
SOUND
Afrobeat, highlife

A voice from Nigeria

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