The Bassline That Provoked a Thousand Soldiers
Genre: Funk, Afrobeat
The compound was called the Kalakuta Republic — a name its founder, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, had derived from a Yoruba word meaning "rascal." The republic had its own clinic, its own recording studio, its own electricity supply. A fence topped with barbed wire encircled it.
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