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Fela Kuti <\/span>made timeless music. That much is clear, given the reverence he earned during his career and after he died in 1997, as well as the contemporary movement of Afrobeats that continues to pay homage to the iconic musician. He made many great songs, which have been collected, presented, and sampled in different forms over the years.\u00a0<\/p>\n With \u2018Best Of The Black President,\u2019 the Fela Kuti <\/a>mythos is soaring on even deeper cultural and sonic ties. This is the first time Fela\u2019s definitive compilation will be available on vinyl, sold in\u00a0the OkayAfrica<\/span> shop. It comes in a colorful boxset; the individual LPs are coated in blue, green, red, and yellow, and the cover is a hardback book jacket-type, with printed sleeves providing more information on the 26-track compilation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As with any collected work, we meet different iterations of the Afrobeat legend in these vinyls. There is the Fela<\/a> of the fiery classics, who set fire and brimstone to authoritative establishments. One also finds the softer Fela, the lover boy whose grooves reflected the easy motions of attraction.\u00a0<\/p>\n In this list, we explore some of the more notable records on the \u2018Best of the Black President\u2019 compilation.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n \u201cLady\u201d\u00a0<\/h2>\n