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Seated on the floor at a jazz festival in Place Des Art at Montreal, I couldn’t but miss Baba 70. Not that the jszzists aren’t trying their best, but their best is definitely not good enough.
Not enough for an African who had a lot of opportunities to listen and dance to Fela Kuti’s music. Fela would ask the.audience not to clap away the sense in the music.
Just like Soyinka declaring that a tiger does not declare its tigritude, it roars.
I’m sure Fela would have wowed the audience with good African music.
What about his dancers, you wan try dem?
Nigeria, indeed Africa, has lost a gem!!!
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