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Afrobeat! Fela And The Imagined Continent By Sola Olorunyomi

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A major contribution to Fela scholarship in particular, and African popular culture studies in general; it explores Afrobeat as musical practice and cultural politics.

— TEJUMOLA OLANIYAN

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In the seventies, as signs of decay began to show in the capitalist experiment of the newly independent African countries, a "bard of the misrule" emerged on the streets of Lagos. Often shirtless and armed with his trademark saxophone, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti tore his way into popular culture with Afrobeat music. Blending ethno-traditional forms with the reigning highlife and jazz rhythms, Afrobeat drew lyrics from the flip side of neo-colonial society and Fela's London and American experience in the sixties.

In the two decades that followed, Fela ruled the nights from Afrika Shrine, his signature nightclub, and the days from the turntables of the restless city dwellers along the Atlantic coastline. Fela's Afrobeat became a dynamic mode of expression in the social history of post-independent West Africa. It generated a counterculture that bonded through music, drugs, resistance politics—and ultimately, the nascence of an Afrocentric contemporary global culture.

In AFROBEAT! FELA AND THE IMAGINED CONTINENT a popular artist, a counter-hegemonic activist of the hardest grain, meets his most cerebral, disquisitional interpreter.

— ODIA OFFIMUN, former President, Association of Nigerian Authors.

This is not just another addition to a growing Fela scholarship but a fascinating and frequently insightful study. It is both a celebration of Fela's uncommon virtuosity and an exploration of his mystique.

— NIYI OSUNDARE, Professor of English,

University of New Orleans.

A major contribution to Fela scholarship in particular, and African popular culture studies in general; it explores Afrobeat as musical practice and cultural politics.

— TEJUMOLA OLANIYAN, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia

An original effort. Like Fela's life, this account of it is not only a wild ride but a magical African musical mystery tour.

— DAVID COPLAN, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.