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Twenty five years after the death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti, his son Femi and grandson Made have donned his mantle, taking the Afrobeat sound to the United States. With their double album "Legacy +", the father and son duo have been nominated for this year's Grammys, hoping to win the Global Music category in the US music awards in Los Angeles.
Fela Kuti's son headlines a remembrance concert for Nigeria's Afrobeat star, on 18th anniversary of his death.
In this week's Guest Star, TRACE Urban takes a look Fela Kuti's creation of Afrobeat and its influences today. TRACE Urban interviews Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti, D'Banj, and P-Square about their thoughts on Fela and the genre.
These works gather the ancient knowledge of different cultures which visited the Iberian Peninsula: from texts by Aristotle and Ptolemy to Latin, Arabic and Hebrew works, and of contemporary contributions developed both in the Latin West and the Islamic world
France is marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of famed novelist Marcel Proust. He penned much of his greatest work, the seven-volume saga "In Search of Lost Time", along the shores of Cabourg, in Normandy. Under the fictional name of Balbec, the town was put on the literary map. To find out more about Cabourg's Proustian legacy, and Proust's short but hugely influential career, we take you to The Villa of Time Found, whose immersive exhibit takes visitors on a sensory trip back in time.
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