Fela’s commitment was legendary; he did not need a vow of poverty. It was not clear, though, that he had a true grasp of what the gods were about. He appeared to have confused the originality of his perspective with the morality of the gods. On the way to his own apotheosis he wasted much effort on making himself into a worshipper. But what did he worship? The tolls begin to be exacted. He gives total, uncompromising voice to the corruptions of power of the time. He slips irremediably into the spent ashes of conservatism, the self-consuming fire of his own origins. He prefers all the gods.
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