The Best Of The Black President is Knitting Factory's opening gambit. The two disc set—the Deluxe Edition also contains a DVD—includes 13 titles made by Kuti, first as Fela Ransome Kuti with Africa 70 ...

Fela Kuti found fame in Africa in the ‘70s – but at the time it eluded him elsewhere. As new audiences discover his music, Peter Culshaw looks back at the complex character. When I met Fela ...

His mother Chief Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a human rights activist ... he was shooting his autobiographical film The Black President. Fela wrote, acted in and directed this autobiographical ...

PBS's Soudtracks series presents Black President ... Against this backdrop, Fela Kuti in the 1970s created Afrobeat, a powerful concoction of American funk and jazz, West African highlife ...

Nigeria’s Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, political gadfly ... EMI released a new live LP and reissued Original Sufferhead and Black President. But, after he was arrested, EMI dropped Fela.

When The Koola Lobitos returned to Nigeria, Kuti declared his home ... The original voice tapes for the unreleased Fela’s biographical film ‘The Black President’ were damaged beyond restoration.

Nigeria has produced some of the finest artists globally, and one of the most influential among them is the late Fela Kuti ... better artist between the “Black President” and red hot superstar ...

Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti has inspired Beyoncé ... on the time he was granted a rare meeting with the self-styled "black president" at his gated studio in Lagos. In Lagos, it is the ...

Amongst them was an illustration of Nigerian afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti dancing ... now the new president of Nigeria for the second time, and General Idiagbon. “I put Fela in Black Power salute ...

I EVEN HAVE A NAME FOR IT: BLACK PRESIDENT. [ playing Afrobeat song ... I'M TRACKING DOWN THE STORY OF FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI, ONE OF AFRICA'S MUSICAL LEGENDS. [ Fela Kuti song plays ] ♪ YOU ...