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“I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.”

Source: Carlos Moore, Fela: This Bitch of a Life (1982), chapter 8

Context He told Carlos Moore of an evening in an Accra club in 1968, when, hearing local bands copy American soul, he resolved to find an original African sound.

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Fela KutiNigeria · 1938–1997
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