Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Ave
212.582.6050
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Fela Kuti
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Tuesday July 28, 2009 (7pm)
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$7
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At the start of this compulsive 1982 profile, the Afrobeat pioneer lets loose a serious boast: "I will be President of Nigeria." As support, the filmmakers shuttle between footage of Fela's infectious performances at his Afrika Shrine and interviews in which the "prophet" sounds off on multinationals, the "spiritual life" of music, and Nigeria's militaristic regime. An irrepressible man of the people, it's Fela's personal life that fascinates — his Western education, his 27 wives (married en masse in 1977 and called the Queens), his love of crime-ridden Lagos, and his righteous struggle for African unity.
