Twenty years ago, the AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot unveiled Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti, a tribute record that recruited over three dozen artists in celebration of the ...

Indeed, a lion cannot birth a goat. Fela comes from a lineage of activists and musicians. His mother Chief Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a human rights activist, nationalist and feminist.

But it’s not easy to amass the kind of talent necessary to replicate the other-worldly blast of the exuberant soul-jazz meld of Afrobeat, the genre that Nigerian artist Fela Kuti created.