Introduction : "Living in the interregnum" : Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the postcolonial incredible
The "apolitical" avant-pop hustler
The afrobeat moralist
Dissident tunes : the political afrobeat
Fela, Lagos, and the postcolonial state
On the shop floor : the social production of afrobeat
Pedagogue, pedagogy, and the pedagogic form
The cosmopolitan nativist : Fela and the antinomies of postcolonial modernity
The political, the libidinal
Conclusion : afrobeat after Fela.