Fela Kuti

Columns

Fela! Here Comes the Black President

By Derek Beres

Great art such as Fela! inspires us to make the choices we need to make, and not give up our responsibilities because it is easier to allow someone else to make decisions for us. [22 September 2008]

(more Global Beat Fusion)

Still a Riot Goin’ On: Fela Kuti, Celebrity Gramscians, and the AIDs Crisis in Africa

By Mark Anthony Neal

Fela's emergence fits the profile of what has come to be known as the Gramscian or organic intellectual. [26 February 2003]

(more Critical Noire)

Blogs

Sound Affects: Old Skewl B.S. aka Morality Police Bite

Artists continually suffer for refusing to bow to the morality police. Yet, like this Kentuckian, we are all Unbridled Spirits, refusing to conceit to itty bitty morality pity. It’s a shame that one has to chant louder, write faster, read quicker, exercise harder, know more and listen with more compassion, isn’t it? Naw, that’s just old skewl. [1 April 2009]

Sound Affects: Hot Buttered Soul: Politics and Pop Culture Are Really One

When change is upon us and we need media most, more and more traditional media outlets will simply pick up and disseminate what fewer and fewer folks have placed on the corporate-filtered news wire. Luckily, my new White House friend is as funky as you wanna be. [19 March 2009]