Author Description

Fela Kuti's Expensive Shit Expensive Shit alternates between short framing narrative chapters of my time in Lagos, and chapters that recount the events leading up to and surrounding the making of Expensive Shit, describe the actual music, and explore Fela's message. At all times, the music will be in the forefront. I want the reader to become as lost in the descriptions of the music as one does when listening to Fela's infectious Afrobeat rhythms, and to feel as educated and inspired when reading about the songs as one does when listening to Fela's pointed, evocative lyrics.