Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Kuti family navigate sibling rivalry carefully. Nonetheless, it is tempting to wonder whether part of what tempted Femi Kuti to break his creative silence after six years (aside a collaborative album with his son Made) is the warm reception given last year to Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head), by his younger half brother Seun. However it was prompted, Journey Through Life is an impressive stock-take that reworks and improves on past hits whilst also looking forward. The highlight of the album is \u201cChop and Run\u201d, which starts as a synopsis of his father Fela\u2019s \u201cUnknown Soldier\u201d, about a violent army raid on the Kuti compound. \u201cI can go on and on,\u201d he sings, before summarising the recent political scandals of the country: \u201c2018 Northern forum money\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009Finance officer tell Kano government gorilla swallow over 6mn naira\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009snake swallow 36mn naira.\u201d His voice rises in disbelief. \u201cAnimals don\u2019 join in the corruption\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009!\u201dThe next track, \u201cAfter 24 Years\u201d, a long-standing fan favourite in the Shrine, the family nightclub in Lagos (with its dating and lyrics newly updated), condemns the civilian politicians of the new century. \u201cThey failed to repair our refineries\/They pretend with their rivalries\/They sit down together dey enjoy\/While the country they destroy.\u201d Drippy and underpowered on 2018\u2019s One People One World, \u201cCorruption Na Stealing\u201d roars back into life here, complete with a tinny keyboard line and thunderous drums. \u201cShotan\u201d is similarly super-powered, with guttural vocals, grungy guitars and drumlines tumbling over each other, its urgency belying the fact that its target, Olusegun Obasanjo, left the presidency in 2007.When Kuti turns his attention inward, as on \u201cWork On Myself\u201d, the sentiments become more generic. That said, even though the title track\u2019s exhortations (\u201cDon\u2019t hold on to material things too tight\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009Keep all of your loved ones by your side\u201d) are stale, they are set to some of the most glorious Afrobeat of his entire career.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Journey Through Life\u2019 is released by Partisan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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