Kalakuta Diaries: The Good, The Bad and The Nasty

Kalakuta Diary-the good, the bad, and the nasty-by Uwa Erhabor is at once a literary work, a political reflection, and a historical archive.

Framed as an invitation to the backstage, the stage is Kalakuta Republic, and the actors are those who lived under the watch of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

Through evocative language, Erhabor situates the reader as more than a passive observer, blurring the boundaries between memoir and narrative art. His shifting lens-sometimes panoramic, sometimes penetrating...