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Album Review

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Financial Times, Album Review >>

By David Honigmann

The Afrobeat on this cry of disappointment over the scant fruits of Nigeria’s return to civilian rule is tight and sharp “Politicians use the same tactics”, declaims Femi Kuti, “Just to win your vote/Politicians will tell you what you want to hear.” Well, yes. The Afrobeat on this cry of disappointment and disillusion over the scant fruits of Nigeria’s return to civilian rule is tight and sharp, each song seeming to start at the climax and work up.

To Kuti, even now, the threat on which he muses of ending up as a “dead hero” feels real enough.

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