Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat
MovieTitle | Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Nov 21, 2020 |
Genre | Music, Documentary |
Director | Biyi Bandele |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | BBC |
Run time | 81 min. |
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.