In 1996, Keziah Jones visited Kalakuta Republic every day for a week to interview Fela Anikulapo Kuti. On the fifth day, after waiting six hours, Keziah got to speak with Fela, who he remarked kept you in “constant and direct eye contact” and spoke “in short bursts of baritone.”
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CHIMURENGA@20: WHEN YOU KILL US, WE RULE!
By Chimurenga on June 7, 2022 in Arts & Pedagogy, Chimurenga Magazine, Faith & Ideology, Healing & bodies, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
Festac at 45: Black Sopranos in Handwoven Clothes
By Chimurenga on January 17, 2022 in Cash & Commerce, Chimurenga Library, Faith & Ideology, Gaming, Library Book Series, Media & Propaganda, Systems of Governance
FESTAC was a cultural-cum-intellectual feast funded principally by the military government of Nigeria. For this reason, it is important to highlight the general political climate of the world in the mid-1970s, as it played a role in the choices that the managers of the Nigerian state had to make in bringing about this cultural event.