More from author
-	Nigeria Cannot Afford to Cry When They Sneeze!
-	It was not my Valentine!
-	Fathers of the Funk!
-	A Few Carry the Flag...
-	Who is SLAM?

See news about

activism AKP Al Yamamah alcoholism treatment Angelina Jolie BAE Systems Bill Murray bizarre news BRIT Awards Buick car crash Celebrity Commonwealth Bank Series Cricket Demi Moore extradition formula one France Gambhir genocide geri Halliwell headlines single Health Care Commission Heather Mills Hutu Hyperinflation Impeachment James Earl Katie Holmes Kylie Minogue Mika military tribunal MRSA Mugabe music Pakistan Pakistan Tour Paris Hilton Politics Ponting Prince Harry and Chelsy Rod Stewart Saudi Arabia SCG Secularists security Serious Fraud Office Sienna Miller Stockholm Syndrome Symonds terrorism The Huff Tim Burton Tutsi usic Victoria Beckham Victoria Beckham nude Yves Leterme00710 Worst Nude Film Scenes2nd amendment50 Cent50-Centa-teamA-Team movieABBAAbbie CornishAbi TitmussAbigail BreslinAcademy AwardsaccidentsAdam SandleraddictionsAdeleAdnan GhalibAfghanistanAfton SmithAgyness DeynAir IndiaAishwarya RaiAl GoreAl Pacinoal QaedaAl-QaedaAlan ArkinAlan RickmanAlanis MorisseteAlanis MorissetteAlbert Einsteinalcoholalcohol addictionalcoholismAlec BaldwinAlesha DixonAlex TurnerAlexandriaAli CampbellAli LarterAlicia KeysAlicia SilverstoneAllahAlli SimsAmanda HoldenAmanda PeetAmanda SeyfriedAmazonAmelle BerrabahAmerican IdolAmerican PieAmy AdamsAmy RyanAmy WinehouseAmy Winehouse is planning a massive Christmas bingAnatole TaubmannAndhraAndrew MortonAndy HilfigerAndy SerkisAng LeeAngela MerkelAngelina Jolieanimal rightsAnjelica HustonAnna NicoleAnna Nicole SmithAnne HathawayAnnie LennoxAnthony HopkinsAnthony MinghellaAnti-IconAntonio BanderasAppleArctic MonkeysAretha FranklinAri SandelArmaniArnieArnold SchwarzeneggerArpad BussonAshantiAshely TisdaleAshlee SimpsonAshley ColeAshley JuddAshley OlsenAshley TisdaleAshton KutcherAsif Ali ZardariAsley OlsenAssamastronautAtonementAtonement\'Audrey HepburnAustraliaAvril LavigneAyda FieldBabelbabyBackstairs BillyBackstreet Boysbad influencesBaftaBaghdadBalticBangladeshBar RafaeliBar RefaeliBarack ObamaBarry ManilowBasraBattlestar GalacticaBBCBeatlesbeauty pageantBeckhambecome news reporterBeethovenBelgiumBen AffleckBenazirBenazir assassinationBenazir BhuttoBenazir Bhutto assassinationBenazir Bhutto photosBenazir Bhutto stampsBenazir Bhutto willBenezir Bhutto assassinationBeowulfBernardo BertolucciBest ActressBest Dressed in 2007best haircutbest motorcycle movie momentsbest moviesBeth DittoBethlehemBette MidlerBeverly Hills 90210BeyonceBeyoncé KnowlesBeyonc¨¦ KnowlesBilawal ZardarBilawal ZardariBill GatesBillie PiperBillionaireBilly JoelBilly Zanebinge drinkingBipasha Basubird fluBismarckBizarre NewsBjorkBlack CrowesBlack Eyed PeasBlake FielderBlake Fielder CivilBlake Fielder-CivilBlaze Media ProblogbloggerbloggingBlurBMWBo DerekBob DylanBobby BrownBollywoodbombBon JoviBondBond 22Bond girlBond girlsBonoBoratBotoxBoy GeorgeBrad PittBrad RenfroBrainBrandon RouthBrandyBrazilbrazil prisonbread thievesBrendan FraserBrian MayBrian McFaddenBrian WilliamsBridget JonesBridget MoynahanBRIT AwardsBritish royal familyBritish Secret IntelligenceBritney SpearBritney SpearsBritney Spears adoptionBritney Spears body doubleBritney Spears lawyerBritney Spears psychological evaluationBritsBrittany MurphyBrooke ShieldsBruce LeeBruce SpringsteenBruce WillisBruneiBryan AdamsBuckingham Palacebulletproof vestBushBusta RhymesCairoCalista FlockhartCalvin KleinCameron DiazCameron MackintosCamila AlvesCamillaCanadaCanada¡¯s Juno AwardscancercannabisCannesCannes Film FestivalCapri Hollywood Film FestivalCarey HartCarla Bruni-SarkozyCarmen ElectraCarmit BacharCaroline KennedyCarrie UnderwoodCasablancaCasey AffleckCasey AldridgeCash WarrenCasio keyboard

 

There is a certain ether between African- American and original African sensibilities. And because one could easily feel it in the soul, music becomes the expressive platform. Moreso nothing has really been lost ever since African-Americans finally got delivered by the sacrificing of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. These were felled in the sixties, when the likes of James Brown, The godfather of Soul and Fela Anikulapokuti, Nigeria's King of Afro-Beat founded their pervasive music idioms.

African music especially when perceived consciously, carries a certain inner feel with an outward expression. This feel, which is not uncommon to the human race, becomes more meaningful to the African, because of the vicissitudes of survival in a harsh world. This is usualand common to the Irish, but to the Arabs it may be subjected to the dicta of Islam. Yet before Negroid Africans were enslaved on American plantations, some earthy originality was perceived by the first White man that landed on the continent. That is the origin of the brotherhood of the African rhythm, beat and harmony between Fela and James, Fathers of the Funk!

So there is certainly that ether, which remains pervasive; therefore, on reading a recent story on James Brown, there was not missing the contemporariness of the two. Born into a well to do family, Fela was privileged to be exposed to the racial injustice of the sixties in America. But James Brown was part and parcel of the demeaning crust of the American excitement. This, Fela would later find uncomforting through indoctrination from the peers of James. There remains the soul connexion, undoubtedly. A privileged African witnessing the incapacitation of his kinsman - a soul brother. That is why Fela abandoned all that stuff about classical music, which he studied in the Royal College of Arts in the United Kingdom.

Fela needed to come home to Nigeria, because he wanted to be home, lest he miss the sixties evolution of his country. It might have been a replication of the American society, where the ruling class were emulating the Whiteman, and, of course, seeking riches to support lifestyles through corruption. And it was not as if Fela's radicalism, the contending opposite, was born solely out of his African-American brother's prejudice, but being the son of the first woman to have driven a car in Nigeria, he was born perhaps with that derring-do. So that guy was naturally equipped with the pains of black and Americans and that of his mother, who finally got thrown down from a one-story building, dying afterwards because of the impact.