Nigeria's Fela Kuti: Rikki Stein remembers the joy of managing the Afrobeat legend
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34 minutes agoBy Richard Hamilton, BBC World ServiceGetty ImagesAt least a million mourners turned up for the funeral of Nigerian musician, and voice of the downtrodden, Fela Kuti, his manager Rikki Stein remembers.“The road was filled with people as far as the eye could see,” he says looking back to that August day in Lagos in 1997.The King of Afrobeat, who was revered by the people but feared by those in…
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