“This place brings out the best in me,” says an excited Rikki Stein, a music industry veteran best known as having been the manager of Nigerian Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
We are literally on the stage at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, as a local band belts out an Afrobeat number; this is the sound that Fela bequeathed the world. It is 11 pm, and there is still a long night ahead, as the week-long festival, Felabration, is just getting started.
