These few, marginal items aside, The Complete Works Of Fela Anikulapo Kuti is exactly that ... Before I Jump Like Monkey Give Me Banana / Excuse-O; CD11: Everything Scatter / Noise For Vendor Mouth; ...

Ra was doubtless referring to the bands of such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson, but this exhaustive 27-disc retrospective of the career of Fela Kuti, on which some 46 ...

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 ...

But it’s still an unreservedly recommended purchase for the Fela Kuti neophyte. Fela’s back catalogue doesn’t lend itself to such compilation, for a number of reasons. For one, few jams in ...