Fela: This Bitch of a Life

by Carlos Moore

Book Overview

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?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556528353
• ISBN13: 9781556528354
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"