African superstar; composer; singer; and musician; as well as mystic and political activist; Nigerian Fela Kuti; born in 1938; was controversy personified.He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance; and when he died of AIDS in 1997; more than a million people attended his funeral. But what was he really like; this man who could as easily arouse violent hostility as he could unswerving loyalty?Carlos Moores unique biography; based on hours of conversation and told in Felas first-person vernacular; reveals the icons complex personality and tumultuous existence. Moore includes interviews with fifteen of his queens (wives); photos; and an updated discography.This November the Tony award-winning Broadway show FELA! ndash; a musical celebration of Fela Kutirsquo;s life ndash; comes to the National Theatre; London. Kuti is also set to be the subject of a biopic from director Steve McQueen (Hunger) which is in development now.Carlos Moore is a political scientist and an ethnologist. He is an honorary research fellow at the School for Graduate Studies and Research of the University of the West Indiesndash;Kingston and the author of Pichoacute;n: Race and Revolution in Castros Cuba.Gilberto Gil is a composer; a bandleader; a singer; and a guitarist and has served as the Brazilian minister of culture since 2003.Margaret Busby is a writer; a critic; a broadcaster; and the editor of Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writing by Women of African Descent.
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