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product_id: 20679685
title: "The Best Of The Black President"
brand: "fela kuti"
price: "₨747"
currency: SCR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
url: https://www.desertcart.sc/products/20679685-the-best-of-the-black-president
store_origin: SC
region: Seychelles
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# The Best Of The Black President

**Brand:** fela kuti
**Price:** ₨747
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Best Of The Black President by fela kuti
- **How much does it cost?** ₨747 with free shipping
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The Best Of The Black President

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Get it.
*by R***E on February 4, 2015*

I'm not connoisseur enough to address all that goes into these tracks, but after reading almost hyperbolic praise of Fela in the alternative press back in the 1980s, I bought a live double-LP set...and was disappointed. The tracks took a full side each (his concerts must have lasted hours) and were built on grooves I did not find especially interesting...at the time; I exchanged the set, but have broadened my taste since then. THESE tracks, at least, are edited down for more Western tastes (or contemporary short attention spans) yet still sprawl comfortably before, between, and after Fela and his singers serve up lyrics, which address social tensions, such as between Westernizing fashions/attitudes and "original African" traditions and identities; corruption; and religious and political conflict, such as his own long struggle against a violent Nigerian government that kept trying to shut him up and shut him down.And the grooves, with his jazz-capable band (Africans taught Western drummers how far they lagged in polyrhythms) layering them up and back down and back up, are as compelling as his own rich, broad-spectrum vocal attack -- singing, shouting, scatting, swearing, humming, doing impressions, up and down his range; and his equally strong sax-playing.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Excellent Intro
*by M***H on April 20, 2003*

I bought this CD at a brick-and-mortar record store -- oddly, because someone had changed their mind on the way to the register and dumped it in the candy bin (ok, it doesn't take much to get me to buy a CD). I had heard one of Fela's records at a party 20 years ago and remembered liking it, so I thought I'd give it a try. This is a wonderful record, and great introduction to Fela (I've now got another half dozen or so albums). Many of his best known songs are here, and while some are edited for length (the ones that are 25+ minutes long in the original versions), the edits are well-done and the sound quality is quite good. The album is a chronological, and you get a good sampling of the different styles he played in over the years. The liner notes are also great, and clue you into the meaning of the pidgin English lyrics. I still listen to this CD even though I now have many of the original albums the songs are drawn from -- the variety is nice, the songs are well programmed, and it is, the "best best."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Real African Music
*by G***R on March 12, 2011*

Fela kUTI I lived in Nigeria for 4 years and I was there when Fela was at the top of his game Fela is a Nigerian who suffered the lost of his mother he play this in this CD. ZOMBIE is my best another cut that I play daily is Shuffering and ShmilingOh I had the honor to meet Fela with his 13 wifes and he was a tender man. If your not into African music then you need to buy Fela I promise you The Best Best Of Fela Kuti will stay on your CD or iPod. There is a play on Broadway called FelaJ Zee, Will Smith produce it.( A must see.)

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