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AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange
My Friend Fela and Birth of Afrobeat
Season 12
Episode 1
A new perspective on the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, MY FRIEND FELA is told through conversations with his close friend and official biographer, African-Cuban Carlos Moore. The accompanying live-action animated short, BIRTH OF AFROBEAT, tells how Nigerian drummer Tony Allen and his partner Fela Kuti created the Afrobeat genre.
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Princeville, NC, once the all Black town of ‘Freedom Hill,’ faces flooding and erosion.
