Fela: This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore – review

by Aimee ShalanApparently the name of legendary Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, means "the one who emanates greatness, who carries death in his quiver and who cannot be killed by human entity". Tough to live up to, but remarkably he somehow managed it. This unique biography, first published in 1982 and based on hours of conversation with the subject, is an intriguing concoction of Fela's first-person vernacular, interviews with 15 of his 27 wives and Carlos Moore's personal voice in a poi...

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