THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF AFRO BEAT 2024

“Shakara” is one of Fela’s Afrobeat X-rays, with each component clicking into put neatly, transparently and inevitably — a funk clockwork intentionally disrupted by his unruly voice.When Fela Kuti coined the time period “Afrobeat” within the 1960s, he was singing in a mix of Pidgin English and Yoruba, the language most prominently spoke