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Fela Anikulakpo Kuti On Biafra by kangasomti: 12:56pm On May 18, 2012
Fela Anikulakpo Kuti on Biafra.

The Yoruba are not Ibo. I thought the Ibo were right. I said to myself, ‘This whole thing is a cheap, big hatch to put Ibos in the bad light in the world’. And, in fact, what was happening was the beginning of corruption in Nigeria. That’s evident now.

The Biafrans were fucking right to secede. If it was secession, it was good secession because; secession is what could have brought Africa together at that time. From secession we could have come together again. But by not seceding, we’re put together by force. Uhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That’s what is happening in Nigeria today. The Ibos don’t understand why they’re in Nigeria. The Yorubas don’t know what’s happening. And the Hausas , want to dominate everybody. The whole thing is fucking confusion. I don’t even know myself why we’re in Nigeria, how we all got together in this country, in the first place. No politician has ever gone into that.

If Ojukwu had seceded, we would have started our own history. We would have known why we seceded and what happened. How did we get together in the first place? Uh? That’s the real question. ‘Why don’t any of the politicians ever ask that question?’ Eh? Anyway at that time, when the war was going on, I wasn’t politically minded at all. I made my comments as citizen. I was just another musician, playing with Kola Lobitos and singing love songs, songs about rain, about people....What did I know? That’s when I split to America.... As culled from the Autobiography 'Fela, this bitch of a life' by Carlos Moore
Re: Fela Anikulakpo Kuti On Biafra by Nobody: 2:04pm On May 18, 2012
You kidding? Cant recall Fela saying that. Nevertherless we are Biafrans
Re: Fela Anikulakpo Kuti On Biafra by Mynd44: 9:40pm On May 18, 2012
Now you pele have resulted to lies. When did Fela say that?
Re: Fela Anikulakpo Kuti On Biafra by kangasomti: 11:36am On May 19, 2012
How well have u studied all Fela's statements or memoirs. I suggested u do your research properly. Start with who Carlos Moore is firstly.
Re: Fela Anikulakpo Kuti On Biafra by velo10: 12:36pm On May 19, 2012
This was during the periods where the Northerners were long in power. Now things are changed that view's gone. Lets all think of one Nigeria and fight corruption.

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