Franklin Bruno’s first book of poems, The Accordion Repertoire, is forthcoming from Edge Books.
The musician’s posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday, is as rich and ambiguous as his declaration that “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.”
Whoever sings them and however great they sound, rebel songs can’t do your fighting for you.
Fela! is an ambitious but flawed musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat and anti-establishment icon Fela Anikulapo Kuti.