Bard of the Public Sphere

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ID20054523
AuthorsSola Olorunyomi (SOAS University of London, corresponding author)
Year2005
Pages33-80
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAfrobeat (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherIFRA-Nigeria (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/books.ifra.523
OpenAlexW1593723527
ISBN9791092312072
LanguageEN
References cited42

Here, we walk the streetwhere laughter is hidden in deep placesand stores cannot shut their doorschoked with hearts that bleed from gathered woundsand you will see nothing can grow here, but agony... —Ogaga Ifowodo The Afrobeat vision as espoused by Fela is largely scattered in his public lectures, media reviews of interviews he granted, his private correspondences, short articles in the few books that have devoted chapters to his life and art, and views expressed by the artist in his YAPNEWS

Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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