Friday. March 31, 2000 - North Shore Nows - 13

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[DON GIOVANNI: 18
SMcK DANCE: 19

BEFORE AND AFTER SCIENCE: PAGE 27

BOOK CLUB

A reading

Femi Anikulapo-Kuti’s rebel music voyage to

“One of che great countercultural figures of modern tints, Fela visited

America inz 1969 and returned ta Nigeria with both a qrans-African
point of view and The Funk. Raised by autocratic parents with liberal
ideas, be had a caveer that flourished under dress... Most of Fela’ ’
work, in facet, lies firmly in the Yoruban tradition of “abuse songs”
criticising bad sucial or political behavior.” — Richard Gebr, Afrabeat
Generations, The Village Voice, March 22-28, 2000.

John Goodman

This Week Editor
Jgcodarn@nsnews.cam

@ Femi Anikulapo-Kuti and Positive Force at Richards on
Richards, Monday April 3, $28, 280-4-4+-44.

LIKE his father Fela before him Femi Kuti fights the
power of corruption through his music. But he’s his
own man and he does it his way.

“[ don’t want to influence what you think. You will have to
come and sve the show,” he said from New York last week as he was
preparing, to cross North America on tour. Afrobeat's favourite son

the Congo

Mary Trentadue
Contributing Writer

Mary Trentadue’s new month-
fy book coiunm for the News
starts with today’s iste.

@ The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver,
Harper Perennial, 543
pp., softcover $20.95.

B& King Leopold’s Ghost: A
Story of Greed, Tervor and
Heroism in Colonial
Africa by Adam
Hochschild, Thomas
Allen & Sons, 365 pp.,
softcover $23.95.

Photo Phillipe Bordas IF yeu have not had the

FEMI Anikuiapo—Kuti brings his Lagos-based band Positive Force to
Sev Femi Pane 22“ Richards on Richards Monday night for an evening of Afrobeat. See Kingsolver Page 2h

TWO AGAINST NATURE CONFIRMS STEELY DAN STILL HAS IT: PAGE 20

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