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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by swaggzDawg: 8:27am On Oct 15, 2016
Our fada[color=#006600][/color]
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Omotayor123(f): 8:27am On Oct 15, 2016
Una no get better picture of this man undecided

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by xreal: 8:28am On Oct 15, 2016
BABA 70

Prophet Fela, all are coming to pass.

We dey suffer and smile seriously.
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by kareem492(m): 8:28am On Oct 15, 2016
imanuel80:
Legends are born in october!

Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by domdan13(m): 8:29am On Oct 15, 2016
LEGENDARY!
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by DanielPop(m): 8:29am On Oct 15, 2016
Go and lick sweet! Wetin u dey find here? grin
kayo80:
Why did Fela like wearing only pant? And why did he like women surrounding him at all times?
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by kokoboy4life(m): 8:30am On Oct 15, 2016
Happy Birthday to this great man, The only man that have harmless thought to is fellow people. #felaliveson
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by cuba62(m): 8:32am On Oct 15, 2016
the great abami EDA !
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by labamo07(m): 8:34am On Oct 15, 2016
HungerBAD:
A true Legend.

There can never be two Fela's in the World.

Salute to a Legend.

Fela's death to AIDS was a teachable period in Nigeria. He was/still the highest public profile person to have died of the disease in Nigeria, and when his Doctor brother came out openly to announce it to the World, that AIDS killed Fela, it now dawned on me that CHAI this thing is real ohh.

Look at the dark skinned beauties in the last picture. Those were the days you could still find dark girls in Nigeria, all of a sudden all the girls in Nigeria are competing to be "light".

I miss our dark skin girls.

#bringbackourdarkskingirls........................

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Kanta89(m): 8:35am On Oct 15, 2016
HBD rest on
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by asarebabson: 8:35am On Oct 15, 2016
kayo80:
Why did Fela like wearing only pant? And why did he like women surrounding him at all times?
ur grandpa may be in good position to ans this question pls. Lol
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by HungerBAD: 8:35am On Oct 15, 2016
labamo07:

#bringbackourdarkskingirls........................

Yes ohh

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by horlakunle25(m): 8:36am On Oct 15, 2016
kayo80:
Why did Fela like wearing only pant? And why did he like women surrounding him at all times?
who go answer dis question nw?? Where are u wen him dey alive na??
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by ednut1(m): 8:37am On Oct 15, 2016
femi4:
Wao, Fela is 78, Agba ti de o
wat is dis one saying
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by rabex123(m): 8:37am On Oct 15, 2016
HW e take affect my life now.

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by berrystunn(m): 8:38am On Oct 15, 2016
O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)
Fela Kuti

[Chorus]
I get my money
Plan my plan finish
Start to go for market
Start to go for shopping
Before I reach market nko o?
Government show don enter
My plan don spoil o
Government show don enter
My plan don spoil o

[Chorus]
Overtake don overtake overtake!

Ah! I beg let us get down
Into another underground spiritual game
I beg, after my "pass o, pass o"
You go dey help me end am with "wen"
Because them go hear wen, yeah!
Pass o, pass o, pass o, pass o...

[Chorus]
Wen!

When they want to call, eh
When they want to call, eh
When they want to call Nigerian government
Them give am name, "Federal Military Government"
(Federal Military Government!)
For Libya dem give am name, "Liberation Council"
(Liberation Council!)
For Liberia dem give am name, "Redemption Council"
(Redemption Council!)
For Zaire dem give am name, "Revolutionary Council"
(Revolutionary Council!)
Them get different different names
For different different governments
But the correct name for them
Na "soldier go, soldier come"

[Chorus]
Soldier go, soldier come!

Soldier go, soldier come
Federal Military Government
Libya Liberation Council
Liberia Redemption Council
Zaire Revolutionary Council
Soldier go, soldier come
Soldier go, soldier come

When Obasanjo and Yar'Adua
Chop belly full and go
Them put civilian friends for there
Them shout, "Second republic!"
People wey no know dey happy
People wey know them dey look
Them baptize the civilian government
Them name am federal government
Me I know by their name
Me I call them "soldier put, soldier go"

[Chorus]
Soldier go, soldier come!
Soldier come, soldier go!

Na so our lives for Africa dey roll
Since them say we get independence
The civilian government wey them dey
Na soldier dey protect them
When our lives roll small
He go go knock head for wall
When our lives roll small
He go go knock head for tree
When our lives roll small
He go go knock head for stone

When I see say our lives dey roll
Like one yeye ball
Wey one yeye wind
Dey blow from one yeye corner
I put my mouth for song:
"Kalakuta Show"

[Chorus]
Yeye rolling!
Gaga gugu, gaga gugu!
Woko woko, woko woko!

Look the man he dey waka
Hungry dey run for him face

I put my mouth for song:
"Mr. Follow Follow"

[Chorus]
Yeye rolling!
Mr. Follow Follow!

Mr. Follow Follow, make you open eye
Mr. Follow Follow, make you open sense

I put my mouth for song:
"Zombie o, Zombie"

[Chorus]
Yeye rolling!
Zombie o, zombie!

Zombie no go go unless you tell am to go and stop
Attention, quick march, left turn
Right turn, about turn, quick march
Quick march, left turn, right turn
About turn, quick march, left turn

I put my mouth for song:
"Shuffering and Shmiling"

[Chorus]
Yeye rolling!
Suffering and smiling!

Every day my people dey inside bus
Forty-nine sitting, ninety-nine standing
Them dey faint, them dey wake like cock
Every day na the same thing

I put my mouth for song:
"Unknown Soldier"

[Chorus]
Yeye rolling!
Unknown soldier!

That my mama wey you kill
She is the only mother of Nigeria
Which kind injustice be this?
Wetin concern government inside?
If na unknown soldier
Them turn blue into red
Them turn pink into green

[Chorus]
Soldier go, soldier come!
Soldier come, soldier go!

The reason suffer our suffer
He don dey show him face to us
When black man want to start business, na big wahala
Na big wahala, he go run orisirisi running
When he start the business nko? Another wahala
Another wahala, he go beg orisirisi begging
To settle wahala, na to start wahala again
To start wahala again you go fall orisirisi falling

And things don come change again
Soldier don put everybody for reverse
Na back the country take dey walk
Soldier don put everybody for reverse
Na back the country take dey walk
Soldier don put everybody for reverse


Ah, I beg, we wan change the mood of this music now
We wan inject second bass and the big conga drums
Oya! Pop!

[Chorus]
Na from back!

If them wan to knock your head
Eh-eh, na from back o
If them wan to knock your head
Eh-eh, na from back o
If you wan to run, be running
Eh-eh, na from back o
If you wan to run, be running
Eh-eh, na from back o
If you wan to beg, be begging
Eh-eh, na from back o
If you wan to beg, be begging
Eh-eh, na from back o
If you wan to fall, be falling
Eh-eh, na from back o
If you wan to fall, be falling
Eh-eh, na from back o
If you wan to get wahala
Eh-eh, na from back o
If you wan to get wahala
I say, na from back o
If anybody wan to try to run forward
Soldier boots go kick am back
Eh-eh, na from back o

Ah! Oya, pass o and wen
Pass o, pass o, pass o, pass o...

[Chorus]
Wen!

Ah! Oya, second bass... pop!

My friend wan come buy fan
Him dey sweat for him dey sleep for room
Him dey fall level of tree
The fan na seventy-five naira
My friend him dey follow salary
Him dey try to save and save and save
Every time he nearly buy the fan
Government go add ten naira more
Every time he nearly buy the fan
Government go start one activity
Till the fan reach two hundred naira
My friend nearly die, he never die

My friend he no wan die
Die-die no dey for him dictionary
For where? Huh...
Him dey try to save and save again
Him save for one year and six months
Inside cupboard
Under pillow
Under, under cooking pot
Inside socks
Under carpet
Him dey on his way to buy the fan
When alarm come blow

[Fela vocalizes a police siren]

Government announce second tier
Everything come tear to pieces
Everything come expensive
Even water become expensive

Second bass, jare... pop!

Fan don become seven hundred naira
Me and my friend start to look ourselves
He remain small make my friend dey cry
Na laugh laugh he catch monkey
Na now he come understand him life
Enjoyment can never come him way
Na now him life dey go reverse
In Africa, him fatherland
One more time...

[Chorus]
Soldier go, soldier come!
Soldier come, soldier go!

Na so Africa man life dey be
Suffer don daburu him sense
When you wear police uniform
Na to collect money for road
Abi I lie?
When you wear police uniform
Na to collect money for road
I no dey lie!
Police station don turn to bank
D.P.O. na bank manager
Police station don turn to bank
I.G. na managing director
Na big e wahala for man to waka for road at anytime

So you see, my brothers
Overtake don overtake overtake, eh-yah
Overtake don overtake overtake, eh-yah

[Chorus]
Overtake don overtake overtake

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by charloski(m): 8:39am On Oct 15, 2016
What Year were you Born..... Before 1992 or after 2000....
kayo80:
Why did Fela like wearing only pant? And why did he like women surrounding him at all times?
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Mekanus(m): 8:48am On Oct 15, 2016
Saint Fela pray for us. The only prophet Nigeria ever had
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by oladipo322(m): 8:52am On Oct 15, 2016
I wonder how this fair lady's will be now
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by esuLAAROYE(m): 9:05am On Oct 15, 2016
I have a handful of Fela Kuti's song on my phone and laptop. These songs often inspire me.





Rip
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by wildchild1: 9:06am On Oct 15, 2016
Water e no get enemy lols


Check my signature
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by LLKJSays(m): 9:10am On Oct 15, 2016
H.B.Day to the one and ONLY TRUE BLACK PRESIDENT Fela BaBa!

Every passing year,your songs politics and philosophy become
prophesies that have unfortunately become,the Struggling Nigerians punishing reality.

That is to say: more Sorrow.Tears.& Blood...unfortunately.

NB: Baba,

Femi & Seun are doing you real Proud!
More FIRE!
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by pressplay411(m): 9:12am On Oct 15, 2016
Most controversial nonconformist free spirited and inspirational human being that ever liveth!

I mean he has Death in his Pouch!
He's more celebrated outside Nigeria, we need to correct that.
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by fortunechy(m): 9:19am On Oct 15, 2016
fela naija really miss u.........i wish u still alive by diz time.buhari would ve resign voluntarilly
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by hahn(m): 9:19am On Oct 15, 2016
HungerBAD:
A true Legend.

There can never be two Fela's in the World.

Salute to a Legend.

Fela's death to AIDS was a teachable period in Nigeria. He was/still the highest public profile person to have died of the disease in Nigeria, and when his Doctor brother came out openly to announce it to the World, that AIDS killed Fela, it now dawned on me that CHAI this thing is real ohh.

Look at the dark skinned beauties in the last picture. Those were the days you could still find dark girls in Nigeria, all of a sudden all the girls in Nigeria are competing to be "light".

I miss our dark skin girls.


This is not true. Have you forgotten that Fela sang, "You dey bleach o, you dey bleach". Bleaching has always been a problem with African women. No be today

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by demolinka(m): 9:19am On Oct 15, 2016
Mekanus:
Saint Fela pray for us. The only prophet Nigeria ever had
Buhehehehehe! Like play like play pope fit canonize am o
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by kingofthejungle(m): 9:20am On Oct 15, 2016
When will the fg make a formal apology to fela

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Nobody: 9:23am On Oct 15, 2016
Beast of no Nation
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Wizzyblack3(m): 9:23am On Oct 15, 2016
Fela- ''Buhari is animal in human skin''

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by tonio2wo: 9:23am On Oct 15, 2016
Tolexander:
Today should be a weed free day!

Duh! Its saturday
Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by haywire07(m): 9:25am On Oct 15, 2016
HungerBAD:
A true Legend.

There can never be two Fela's in the World.

Salute to a Legend.

Fela's death to AIDS was a teachable period in Nigeria. He was/still the highest public profile person to have died of the disease in Nigeria, and when his Doctor brother came out openly to announce it to the World, that AIDS killed Fela, it now dawned on me that CHAI this thing is real ohh.

Look at the dark skinned beauties in the last picture. Those were the days you could still find dark girls in Nigeria, all of a sudden all the girls in Nigeria are competing to be "light".

I miss our dark skin girls.


So who com ask u all dis stories now . u re fond of posting irrelevant comments as FTC just to garner likes , abeg dey don't collect money wit it jor undecided

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Re: Fela Kuti's 78th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by fuckyoumhen: 9:26am On Oct 15, 2016
HungerBAD:
A true Legend.

There can never be two Fela's in the World.

Salute to a Legend.

Fela's death to AIDS was a teachable period in Nigeria. He was/still the highest public profile person to have died of the disease in Nigeria, and when his Doctor brother came out openly to announce it to the World, that AIDS killed Fela, it now dawned on me that CHAI this thing is real ohh.

Look at the dark skinned beauties in the last picture. Those were the days you could still find dark girls in Nigeria, all of a sudden all the girls in Nigeria are competing to be "light".

I miss our dark skin girls.

STOP SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION! ALMAJIRI THAT WE HAVE AS HEAD OF STATE BACK THEN INSTRUCT THE PRISON TO INJECT FELA WITH POISONOUS SUBSTANCE THAT LED TO HIS DEATH

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