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Afrobeat is a combination of Ghanaian highlife, jazz, James Brown-style funk, and traditional Nigerian musics. It was created in the late 1960s by Nigerian musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti for use as both dance music and as a tool to critique the military, government, and British-in…

In 2006, The United Nations reported that the "global distribution of income is very unequal and the inequality has not been falling over time" (Davies et al 2006:1)1. Visibly, these inequalities are overwhelmingly racialized. Black people all over the world continue to be subje…

This dissertation undertakes a comparative analysis of the musical, written, and spoken production of Sun Ra and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with respect to the larger African Atlantic intellectual environment, situating the two artists as both shapers of an Atlantic intellectual cultur…