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The Great Pretender: Fela Kuti

Len Brown, NME, 25 October 1986

So, who is this FELA KUTI? An African musician just out of jail and now threatening to run for President of Nigeria? A polygamist in dodgy underpants? Or the one seriously revolutionary force in world music? LEN BROWN sees and hears Fela on the job in Paris.

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