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Episode: Fela Kuti: Fear No Man
Description: History, Music, Culture, Society
Official website: https://art19.com/shows/fela-kuti-fear-no-man
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In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually... do? Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed? In Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, Jad Abumrad tells the story of one of the great political awakenings in music: how a classically trained 'colonial boy' traveled to America, in search of Africa, only to return to Nigeria and transform his sound into a ba...