Friday, August 2nd
Fela!
Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra, Seun Kuti, Egypt 80, “Upside Down” (Fela Kuti), live, published April 4, 2024
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2021
Friday, October 8th
what’s new
Common, “When We Move” (feat. Black Thought, Seun Kuti), 9/28/21
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
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Clear and clearer
with the moon the heart
swells widening
out toward
what distant end I know not—Saigyō (1118-1190), translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney
2019
Wednesday, August 14th
sounds of Nigeria and Chile
Newen Afrobeat feat. Seun Kuti (vocals) and Cheick Tidiane Seck (keyboards), “Opposite People” (F. Kuti), live (studio), Chile (Santiago), 2016
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Should we have stayed at home, / wherever that may be?
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “Questions of Travel”
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