A Night at the Shrine of Fela

Parochial Americans don’t care much about Africa, and so parochial Americans don’t know anything, or know very little, about Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the pioneering Nigerian musician and activist who in the 1960s and ’70s created Afrobeat, a jazzy, funky genre, with hints of African rhythms and lots of horns. Fela!, the raucously fun Broadway musical Read More