Via Nettime, comes this gem from DJ Spooky: A Different Utopia (Flash-based), which is a homage to African musician Fela Kuti, but placed within a socio-political context.

Spooky says:

"This is a remix of an essay and art piece written/created for the show based on Fela Anikalupo-Kuti called "Black President - the Legacy of Fela Kuti." I took several records of Tony Allen - who was Fela's drummer and often collaborative song-arranger, and did a remix based on an architectural manifesto for a new Kalakuta Republic - the physical aspects are posters created as street advertisements, and the actual sounds of the project were taken from various samples of Tony Allen's classic records of "Afrobeat" music over the last 30 years - drum solos, horn riffs etc etc all an architecture of sound and rhythm."

Essay extract:

"In the world of post-colonial Africa, what Fela did was foster a unique circumstance - he created a utopia. His "Kalakuta Republic" was a way of producing a space that reflected his desires as an African to build an independent cultural zone, a place that literally, following the definition of the term "utopia" didn't exist. The "Kalakuta Republic" was essentially a space that reflected his values and needs - something all too rare in the post World War II African political and cultural landscape. It was an artificial place in the midst of an artificial situation what could be a better metaphor for contemporary Africa? Place one mirage in front of another and you get a hall of mirrors, a place where reality comes only by design, and that's a good starting point to look at the "Kalakuta Republic" By creating a social space bounded by and founded on African needs, he had to secede from the imaginary space of mass culture that was called "Nigeria" to create a new story, a new fiction founded on music, and culture indigenous to the people who lived there. Fictional spaces and imaginary cities - new forms demand new functions - that's what Fela told us with his Shrine Project."