Fela: Kalakuta Notes

by John Collins

An intimate portrait of the Afrobeat legend

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. Kalakuta...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819575399
• ISBN13: 9780819575395
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.0"