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Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat

8.020201h 21mMovieMusicDocumentary

In 1997, over one million people gathered in Lagos for the funeral of Fela Kuti, Africa’s biggest artist, who gave the world Afrobeat, yet was also a thorn in the side of Nigeria’s military regimes - a revolutionary who fought injustice…

DirectorBiyi Bandele

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Cast · Directed by Biyi Bandele

Fela Kuti

Self (archive footage)

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