Early in this documentary, Bill T. Jones, the director and choreographer of the award-winning Broadway musical Fela!, explains that, initially, he had only a “standard issue” appreciation of the great Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, who died in 1997. Kuti’s beats, while danceable, are also complicated and polyphonic. You have to learn to love his music, but once you do, it will take you to...

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