Babatunde Olatunji

In the early 1960s, Babatunde Olatunji was the face of African music in America. Though
the real Afropop of the time was longer on melodies of wisdom than drums of passion, the
Nigerian political-science student quickly found that to teach Americans anything at all
about Africa, he'd best keep it simple. So his six albums for Columbia, the first and last of
which resurface here with unnecessarily jazzy bonus tracks, stick to theatrical... More >