Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Arts of Africa

The Creative Arts of Continental Africa and the Diaspora

Fela Live performing – Power Show

Posted by admin On October - 31 - 2009

FELA - Power Show video

FELA Live – Power Show

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s afrobeat occupies a pivotal position in Nigeria’s musical continuum and socio-political discourse. Through Fela, a new medium of social and political criticism was unearthed for the critical mass of Nigerians in the 1970s. Although Nigeria was experiencing what would turn out to be a brief respite of oil-boom prosperity after the bitter Biafran civil war, Fela used his music to remind the society to be critical of and cautious about the military dictatorship and the impact of neocolonialism on the psyche of the Nigerian people.


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