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The Best Best of Fela Kuti
Compilation album by
Fela Kuti
Released1999
Recorded1972–89
GenreAfrobeat
Length157:43
LabelBarclay, Universal
ProducerFemi Kuti
Alternate covers
Barclay reissue, 2002
Alternative cover
Knitting Factory Records, 2009

The Best Best of Fela Kuti is a 2-CD compilation album by Nigerian Afrobeat artist Fela Kuti, released in 1999 by MCA Records.[1] It was issued in the United States in 2000 as part of a reissue series of Kuti's albums.[2] The album was reissued as The Best of the Black President in 2009 by Knitting Factory Records and received universal acclaim from music critics.[3] A companion 2-CD compilation, also released in 1999, was reissued in the U.S. in 2013 by Knitting Factory as The Best of the Black President 2.

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