Fela Kuti: Spliffs, riffs . . . and 27 wives

Robin Denselow once spent a wild night with Fela Kuti. So can the hit musical about the Afrobeat legend match up to his memories?Walking into the rehearsals of Fela! at London's National theatre, it was impossible to stop thinking about the last time I met the intriguing, infuriating genius Fela Kuti, a musical and political revolutionary who invented Afrobeat.It was in Lagos, Nigeria, in the mid-1990s. The military had annulled the election and locked up Chief Abiola, the man widely accepted a...

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