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Fela Kuti's Last Stand?

Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 13 February 1985

"THE GOVERNMENT is trying to lure me into participation in the politics of Nigeria now but that doesn't really mean my situation is very cool with my government," mused Fela Anikulapo Kuti over the phone from London last July. "It's very difficult for me to judge how the government feels and when they want to attack me."

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