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“Shakara” is among Fela’s Afrobeat X-rays, with Just about every component clicking into location neatly, transparently and inevitably — a funk clockwork intentionally disrupted by his unruly voice.When Fela Kuti coined the time period “Afrobeat” during the 1960s, he was singing in a combination of Pidgin English and Yoruba, the languag