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Tony Allen: Inventor of Afrobeat was both technically remarkable and irresistibly funky

Drummer Tony Allen helped establish Afrobeat as a politically charged, socially conscious, eminently danceable musical force.

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afrobeat

Tony Allen: Inventor of Afrobeat was both technically remarkable and irresistibly funky

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