Egypt 80 Band

LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Imagine a style of music that combines funk, jazz, R&B, soul — a fusion that becomes powerful enough to create a political movement and inflame a nation’s authoritarian leadership. That’s the West African genre of music known as Afrobeat. Afrobeat was pioneered in Nigeria during the late ’60s by the late multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who used music…