Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
1982; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/002193478201300109
ISSN1552-4566
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Religion, Digital Communication
ResumoFela Anikulapo-Kuti's biography reflects something of the underlying nature of social reality and social processes in Nigeria. Biographical experiences result from a combination of several phenomena, one of the most important of which is the individual's consciousness, which not only structures his perception and interpretation of the social world, but also activates his specific social action. Fela Anikulapo was moved by the larger evolution of social consciousness that pervaded the black world in the 1960s. At that time he chose to be a part of the politics of revolution which was consequent upon that fundamental change. The immediate setting for that revolution (and for the shaping of Fela's consciousness) was the United States, and the immediate revolutionaries were Black Americans. Since he was not an American, he felt it more relevant to transfer his own revolutionary struggles to his own society where sociohistorical conditions were different, obviously, from those of the United States. He had to devise his own type of revolutionary struggle suitable to his social environment as well as the possibilities of his own existential condition. Music was the
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