Fela Kuti & Egypt 80
One of world music's pioneering superstars, Fela Kuti led a colourful life and
had a productive career, in which he invented Afro-beat, the name he himself
coined for his high energy dance music. A larger than life maverick character,
Kuti fronted various bands as he toured the world and became a political
activist, a stance which resulted in him falling foul of the authorities,
notably with the hit album Zombie criticising the Nigerian military. His
subsequent life and career was marred by violence, but he continued to use his
music as a political weapon and in 1979 launched an ...
