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Afrobeat is Fela Kuti's political big-band music from 1960s Nigeria. Afrobeats is the contemporary West African pop umbrella named in London around 2011. They are not the same genre.
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ReadAfrobeat is Fela Kuti's political big-band music from 1960s Nigeria. Afrobeats is the contemporary West African pop umbrella named in London around 2011. They are not the same genre.
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