Lagos Chop Up Fuji And Afrobeat, Highlife And Juju

Fela's success in the West has hidden from view the diversity of modern Nigerian music. 'Chop Up' sets out to put things in perspective — ranging across styles from the mid-sixties to the early eighties — and musically it's mind-boggling. 

Here, there is juju, apala, afrofunk, highlife. Some breathtaking classic fuji — raw Muslim street music — for twenty-five years now the real soundtrack of Lagos youth. And the Afrobeat tracks include one of the best you'll ever hear — thirteen minutes of Shina WIlliams And His African Percussions. As Chief Ebenezer Obey puts it - 'Eyi Yato', something different.

With detailed notes by Michael Veal (Fela's biographer) and great artwork by Ogunajo Ademola: '