Fela Anikulapo Kuti built Afrobeat out of funk, jazz, and Yoruba rhythm, then used it to attack the Nigerian government that jailed him repeatedly for it. Shot in Lagos in 1982 near the peak of his career, the film mixes performance footage from his Shrine nightclub with interviews where Kuti lays out his views on politics, Pan-Africanism, religion, and the music itself, plus unreleased versions of songs including "ITT," "Army Arrangement," and "Power Show." Cameras also follow him through Kalakuta Republic, the walled compound he declared independent from the Nigerian state and ran on his own terms, with his wives, his band, and his household around him. Street scenes of Lagos frame the music in the poverty and corruption Kuti wrote about directly, naming names rather than speaking in metaphor. He recorded more than sixty albums over his career and was known across Nigeria as the "Black President," a title the film treats as earned rather than ironic. The interviews are unfiltered enough that Kuti's contradictions, his charisma and his recklessness, come through without narration smoothing them over.