{"product_id":"fela-this-bitch-of-a-life","title":"Fela: This Bitch of a Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfrican superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy personified.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance, and when he died of AIDS in 1997, more than a million people attended his funeral. But what was he really like, this man who could as easily arouse violent hostility as he could unswerving loyalty?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarlos Moore's unique biography, based on hours of conversation and told in Fela's first-person vernacular, reveals the icon's complex personality and tumultuous existence. Moore includes interviews with fifteen of his queens (wives); photos; and an updated discography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis November the Tony award-winning Broadway show FELA! -- a musical celebration of Fela Kuti's life -- comes to the National Theatre, London. Kuti is also set to be the subject of a biopic from director Steve McQueen (Hunger) which is in development now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCarlos Moore is a political scientist and an ethnologist. He is an honorary research fellow at the School for Graduate Studies and Research of the University of the West Indies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGilberto Gil is a composer, a bandleader, a singer, and a guitarist and has served as the Brazilian minister of culture since 2003.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMargaret Busby is a writer, a critic, a broadcaster, and the editor of Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writing by Women of African Descent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Carlos Moore\u003cbr\u003eISBN 0857125893, 9780857125897\u003cbr\u003eFormat Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePages 302p.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"African Perspectives","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39308343443541,"sku":"9780992236359","price":320.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/0053\/8453\/products\/Fela_This_bitch_of_a_life.jpg?v=1617201566","url":"https:\/\/vikas-test.myshopify.com\/products\/fela-this-bitch-of-a-life","provider":"Vikas Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}