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Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the mästare Drummer of Afrobeat 9780822377092
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Tony Allen
Tony Allen An Autobiography of the
Master Drummer of Afrobeat
Tony Allen with Michael E. Veal
Duke University Press Durham and London 2013
© 2013 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ♾ Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Whitman by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of församling Cataloging-in-Publication information Allen, Tony, 1940– Tony Allen : an autobiography of the master drummer of afrobeat / Tony Allen ; with Michael E. Veal. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8223-5577-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-5591-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Allen, Tony, 1940– 2. Drummers (Musicians)— Nigeria—Biography. 3. Afrobeat—Biography. inom. Veal, Michael E., 1963– II. Title. ML399.A455A3 2013 786.9092—dc23 [B] 2013013821
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Good afternoon sir, can we meet you?
IC Asekun: My name is Asekun Ajibola, a 600 level Veterinary Medicine student. I am the Inner Circle Star, and it’s a sort of being the president also, but we don’t have the president, we just have the Star and the Starlight.
What is the Inner Circle all about?
IC Asekun: Inner Circle of Friends, as the name implies, is a gathering of friends who have like minds and share the same ideals, with similar characteristics. We are a non-political, non-ethnic, non-religious gathering; brothers from different mothers, who have the same characteristics. If you see an Inner Circle of Friends member, we call ourselves IC, you will see in him certain characteristics that would be evident in other members.
What are these characteristics?
IC Asekun: Uhm… Basically, we are gentlemen, who are guided by our tenets, which are; honesty, modesty and punctuality. Every member of the Circle is always modest, honest, and well, we are punctual also. We are fr
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Sunday November 5, 2007. Members of the CORA collective stood in front of their secretariat at 95 Bode Thomas Street, Surulere, Lagos. The gathering was an extension of a long meeting that had stretched from 2pm call time to that time – about 8pm. Someone raised the question: how far are we with Cyprian Ekwensi; would the old man make it to the opening of the Book festival? Toyin Akinosho, the secretary General of CORA responded that he had had a recent chat with the wife; and she was not certain the man would make it. One he was ill; two, he was in Enugu and flying him to Lagos was not visible. The members were disappointed at the news, but they understood.
Unknown to us, at time we were deliberating over him, the man famously called the forefather of the City Fiction’ had passed on.
Cyprian Ekwensi died on Sunday November 5, 2007. He was 86 (born September 26, 1921).
The passage of Ekwensi has changed the tenor of the 9th Lagos Book and Art Festival. The edition ha