Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat

Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat (2020)


  • Genre: Music, Documentary
  • Release Date: 2020-11-21
  • Runtime: 1h 21min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Biyi Bandele

Summary

In 1997, over one million people gathered in Lagos for the funeral of Fela Kuti, Africa’s biggest artist, who gave the world Afrobeat, yet was also a thorn in the side of Nigeria’s military regimes - a revolutionary who fought injustice with his music and a libertine who married 27 wives in one ceremony. When he died from a disease that carried a huge stigma in Africa, there was fear his legacy would die with him. Exclusive testimony reveals the multifaceted man behind the maverick performer.

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  • Fela Kuti

    as Self (archive footage)
Directing Biyi Bandele Director

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