Raxxye: Na Fela be that? E no resemble am o!

anonimi:

Keep TRYING to bamboozle us with incredible denial of our history.
Anyway, Fela may be dead but his voice and images (videos) are still with us. He sang about Buhari's political victimisation clearly in this album:


[img]http://1.bp..com/_MgRHpnroYGU/TRsHcU6PPHI/AAAAAAAABQs/ZVqYGJ9q7Qk/s1600/BeastsOfNoNation.jpg[/img]


It included these lyrics:



Source Listen here:

[url=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhA2pxthkI][/url]

chucky234: One of the greatest Africans ever lived.

@levelszik:
Chai,the anikulapo himself.the only brave yoruba man.even though u r gone,your manhood
still lives on.*sobs,pass me d handkerchief*

anonimi:

Understandably, one cannot expect GenBuhari to confirm that it was under his idol's reign as MAXIMUM RULER of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, FRN.
Meanwhile another picture of Fela under similar circumstance in the same era of executive LAWLESSNESS by our military
@ Anonini,

These pictures of Fela were taken after the original Shrine @ 122 Agege Motor Rd, Lagos, was razed by irate soldiers in 1977.

At the time, Olusegun Obasanjo was Head of State and [b]NOT Muhammadu Buhari who only became Head of Sate in 1984.

It was during Buhari's regime that Fela was arrested and jailed for not declaring the total amount of foreign currency he had in his possession at the airport on his way to a concert in LA. Althouh incarcerated there was no beating involved in the latter incident.


COUPISTS masquerading as War Against Indiscipline (WAI) [/b]


[img]http://4.bp..com/-Y3npfJP23YU/UZYhPkTKenI/AAAAAAAADdE/uqnLbTzaJo4/s1600/Fela+Kuti_118.jpg[/img]


The below extract is from the blog that has the picture:



Guess who was the Officer-in-Charge at Dodan Barracks (i.e. Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the FRN) at the time
None other than CLUELESS Ayatollah Buhari.

GenBuhari: Source please!
Can I remind you that a blog cannot be a credible source for a story that took place before invention of the Internet.
In any case Fela himself is a wise man and despite being imprisoned during Buhari's regime for breaking currency law he never ever criticised Buhari. So there was no political reason why Buhari's regime would harass Fela.

The photo this photo was not from 1984, it was most likely the 1978 beating he received under Obasanjo, as Fela was never released by Buhari's regime until Buhari was overthrown.

anonimi:

Understandably, one cannot expect GenBuhari to confirm that it was under his idol's reign as MAXIMUM RULER of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, FRN.
Meanwhile another picture of Fela under similar circumstance in the same era of executive LAWLESSNESS by our military COUPISTS masquerading as War Against Indiscipline (WAI)


[img]http://4.bp..com/-Y3npfJP23YU/UZYhPkTKenI/AAAAAAAADdE/uqnLbTzaJo4/s1600/Fela+Kuti_118.jpg[/img]


The below extract is from the blog that has the picture:



Guess who was the Officer-in-Charge at Dodan Barracks (i.e. Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the FRN) at the time
None other than CLUELESS Ayatollah Buhari.

Afrobeat historian Chris May, who provides in-depth track-by-track commentaries for all tracks on the Fela reissues released by Knitting Factory, writes:
 
Sorrow Tears & Blood (1977) – an impassioned attack on police and army violence against political dissenters in Africa - was among the first albums Fela released following the Nigerian army's destruction of his Kalakuta Republic commune on 18 February 1977. Characteristically, Fela came back fighting. One of the LP's early front sleeve designs (there were two, about which more below) was a photograph showing Fela onstage in the aftermath of the outrage, his left leg in plaster from foot to knee. The police and army invariably leave behind them "sorrow, tears and blood," Fela sings, and the backing vocalists respond, "dem regular trademark."  The album was dedicated, Fela said, "to the memory of those who were beaten, raped, tortured or injured" during the Kalakuta attack.
 
Fela's record company, Decca, refused to release Sorrow Tears & Blood, fearing government reprisals. Fela responded by setting up Kalakuta Records and making the album the label's debut release.
 
All this has led to the common belief that the album's title track was written after, and concerns itself with, the events of February 1977. It certainly resonates with them. However, according to Fela's friend and sleeve designer, Ghariokwu Lemi, Fela actually wrote the lyrics in the weeks following the South African apartheid regime's crushing of the Soweto uprising on 16 June 1976. Sorrow Tears & Blood was added to Afrika 70's set list the following month, and was probably recorded around August/September.

Fela was supposed to come to LA in 1984 to perform at the Hollywood Bowl, but he was arrested on trumped-up currency charges and put in jail.

Source: http://afrobeat-music..com/2013/05/fela-kuti-on-kcrw-unearthed-cassette.html

wheesin: Baba o....the guy really suffered...but the sad thing was dat he died during my birth month and year....

anonimi:

Keep TRYING to bamboozle us with incredible denial of our history.
Anyway, Fela may be dead but his voice and images (videos) are still with us. He sang about Buhari's political victimisation clearly in this album:


[img]http://1.bp..com/_MgRHpnroYGU/TRsHcU6PPHI/AAAAAAAABQs/ZVqYGJ9q7Qk/s1600/BeastsOfNoNation.jpg[/img]


It included these lyrics:



Source Listen here:

[url=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhA2pxthkI][/url]

anonimi:

Keep TRYING to bamboozle us with incredible denial of our history.
Anyway, Fela may be dead but his voice and images (videos) are still with us. He sang about Buhari's political victimisation clearly in this album:


[img]http://1.bp..com/_MgRHpnroYGU/TRsHcU6PPHI/AAAAAAAABQs/ZVqYGJ9q7Qk/s1600/BeastsOfNoNation.jpg[/img]


It included these lyrics:



Source Listen here:

[url=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zhA2pxthkI][/url]

cap28: No Nigerian musician past or present can even dream of coming close to this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRXNA3Eofs

stfadaanthony: Abamieda leaves on...i remba his sayn,i ave death in my posh

Raxxye: Na Fela be that? E no resemble am o!