Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense (1938 – 1959)
In Search of Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt [+]
DJ and Writer
Max Reinhardt is a club DJ, music writer, compiler, BBC World Service radio presenter and a composer for children's theatre and television. With fellow juror Rita Ray, he's co-hosted a string of innovative club events, including the acclaimed Shrine nights, DJ's with Andy Sheppard's Short Cuts and programmes international music festivals in London.
Rita Ray [+]
DJ and Broadcaster
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Rita Ray is a Club DJ, radio and TV presenter (including the BBC World Music Awards, Festival in the Desert and WOMAD), arranges and produces records and is musical director of theatre and vocal groups.
Description
The story of Fela’s childhood and youth as told by his aunt the late Dolu Ransome Kuti, his cousin Yemisi, his childhood friend (and later PR man) J.K Braimah, Faisal Helwani, his Ghana based agent and co-producer and Michael E. Veale, professor of Musicology at Yale and Fela’s definitive biographer