Returning to civilian life was harder than I expected. The calls stopped, the responsibilities faded, and I had to accept that I was no longer in command. The Navy kept moving without me, and facing that truth hurt more than I thought it would.Putting my medals in a shadow box felt like closing a chapter I wasn't fully ready to leave. Suddenly I had to confront everything I'd ignored during years of service-my emotions, my identity, my purpose.

African superstar composer singer and musician as well as mystic and political activist Nigerian Fela Kuti born in 1938 was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance and when he died of AIDS in 1997 more than a million people attended his funeral. But what was he really like this man who could as easily arouse violent hostility as he could unswerving loyalty? Carlos Moore's unique biography based on hours of conversation and told ...