EXCLUSIVE : President Barack Obama said earlier today that the U.S. was in a “political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before”.

The former Commander-in-Chief is also focusing on political resistance of a different sort with a new podcast about Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Kuti.

The Obamas’ Higher Ground is behind Fela Kuti: Fear No Man for Audible .

The 12-part series, which launches on September 18, explores the true story of Fela Kuti, the classically-trained Nigerian musician who created the Afrobeat music genre as a revolutionary language of resistance against oppression.

It will be hosted by Jad Abumrad, who was behind the hit podcast Dolly Parton’s America and was part of Radiolab.

It forms part of a first-look deal that Higher Ground struck

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