Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
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- Опубліковано 3 лис 2011
- LYRICS:
TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME
MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH
AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY
NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O
Let's get down, to the underground spiritual game
We all sing together, play music together in happiness
All you have to do is sing what I play on my horn
Now Let's go...
A kujuba, A kujuba
YE-EHHHH!
Yehhhhhh-Ey!
Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
All the wahala, all the problems,
All the things, all the things they go do,
For this world go start,
When the teacher, schoolboy and schoolgirl jam together
Who be teacher?
I go let you know
When we be pikin
FATHA/ MAMA BE TEACHER
When we dey for school
TEACHER BE TEACHER
Now dey University
LECTURER BE TEACHER
When we start to work
GOVERNMENT BE TEACHER
CU-ULTURE AND TRADITION (*after each line)
Who be government teacher?
Who be government teacher?
Cu-ulture and tradition
Cu-ulture and tradition
Now the problem side, of a teaching student-ee
I go sing about
I don pass pikin, I don pass school, university, se-fa pass
As I don start to work, na government I must se-fa pass
Da go for France
YES SIR/YES MAAM (*after each line)
Engi-land
Italy
Germany
Na dem culture
For der
Be teacher
For dem
Go China
Russia
Korea
Viet Nam
Na dem culture
For der
Be teacher
For dem
Go Syria
Jordan
Iran
Iraq
Na dem culture
For der
Be teacher
For dem
Let us face ourselves for Afrika
Na de matter of Afrika
This part-ee of my song
Na all the problems of this world
In we dey carry, for Afrika
Wey no go ask-ee me
WHICH ONE? (*after each line)
Problems of inflation
Problems of corruption
Of mismanagement
Stealing by government
Nothing we dey carry
All over Afrika
Na de latest one
Na him dey make me laugh
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AUSTERITY (*after each line)
Austeri-
Austeri-
Na him dey latest one
Na him dey make me laugh
Why I dey laugh?
Man no fit cry?
Who be our teacher na Oyinbo?
Who be our teacher na Oyinbo?
A na false, the first election
And the second election held in Nigeria
Na the second election na it was pass
BOBA LA NONSENSE (*after each line)
Boba la nonsense
Boba la nonsense
He pass redeem
He pass corruption
Which kind election be dis?
People na go vote
Dem come get big big numbers
Thousands to thousands
Millions to billions
Which kind election be dis?
Boba la nonsense
Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal
Na dem-o-cr-azy be the deal
Who don teach us ee dem-o-cr-azy?
(Bo-ptch!) Oyinbo teach-ee us
(Yuh-ngh!) Oyinbo for Europe-oh
Oyinbo teach us many many things-ee
Many of dem things I don sing about-ee
Me I no gin copy Oyinbo style
Let us think say, Oyinbo no pass me
When Shagari finish him elections
Wey dem no tell am, say him make mistake-ee
Say this yo, no be democracy
Oyinbo dem no tell army self
Na for England-ee, I me no fit take over
I come think about this demo-crazy
Democrazy
DEMO-CRAZY (*after each line)
Crazy demo
Demonstration of craze
Crazy demonstration
If it no be craze
Why for Afrika?
As time dey go
Things just dey bad
They bad more and more
Poor man dey cry
Rich man dey mess
Demo-crazy
Democrazy
Crazy demo
Demonstration of craze
Crazy demonstration
If good-u teacher teach-ee something
And student make mistake
Teacher must talk-ee so
But Oyinbo no talk-ee so
I suffer dem, Dey suffer dem
Dem dey say da teaching get meaning
Different different meaning
Different different kinds of meaning
That is why I say
That is the reason of my song
That is the conclude
The conclud-ee of my song
I say, I sing, I beg everyone to join my song (3x)
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TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURER BE YOUR NAME
TEACHER, TEACHER-O NA THE LECTURE BE THE SAME
MAKE-EE NO TEACH-EE ME AGAIN OH
AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
AS SOON TEACHING FINISH YES, DA THING-EE IT GON DIE IT DEY-O
ME AND YOU NO DEY FOR THE SAME-U CATEGORY
NA THE SAME CATEGORY-O
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Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-Ke, Ke-re-ke, Ke-re-Ji-Ke-Ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
Ke-re-ke-Ke Ji Ke-ke
YAA!
I flew from Amsterdam to Lagos in 1994 and saw Fela play a live concert in a club there.. words can not explain how amazing it was.
Ja echt goed toch?
Baba the nonsense
Shook his hand after a show once in his “shrine”. He was exhausted and came to the back of the hall where he plonked in a chair with his arms hanging from the back rest.
I approached. No bodyguards. He was a true man of the people. Sitting, watching the stage, with a huge crowd behind him. Totally exhausted.
“Good evening sir (it was early in the morning hit who cared 😎) can I just please shake your hand?” I asked the great man.
Until just now, I never understood his response. His response was “Why? Why? Why? Why?” Opening his huge palms and giving me a sting handshake.
Why? = “Why would you even ask, just walk up and stretch your hand…”
He was a true man of the people.
One of a kind. True legend. True son of Africa.
#dk
#OldManInTheMolue
Forgot to add: This happened in May 1987. 35 years ago…. I was 24 years old 😃😎✌🏾
Powerful FIGURE at the intersection of CULTURE; PAN-Africanism; Cultural Identity and Afro-BEAT GENRE Catalyst!!
I can imagine
07/03/2023 As an African I find myself crying listening to his message. Nothing as changed over 40 years later! RIP legend.
But it's changing now!
@@dominiqpowell37 what's changing?
It will never change till we all rise above the "mama dey for house,papa dey for house,I get one son,I no wan die,I no wan kwench* to take back our country from these scammers called politicians who sadly have became worse than our past military dictators.
As a Ghanaian living in New Zealand to come across my Fela Kuti being played in a Pub 2018 made me cry for Joy. This just proves how universal our brother was and still is.!
suffering is universal whether regardless of race or color
@@qwer8907 are you saying that FK's music was just about suffering?
Thanks.... I'm in Baltimore Maryland and enjoy the best moments listening to Fela music... Reminiscing my childhood memories in Nigeria
@@qwer8907 you must be an imbecile.
Ghana...the place of refuge for Nigerians
African leaders should be made to listen and meditate on Fela's music maybe their thinking will change
john india Heavy Hitters are usually real rich and power-hungry like the ones who sold slaves for iron bars to mine copper and minerals and diamonds and gold sold them to Dutch British Spanish system to the South and now we're nowhere is the scapegoat like the South in America the American South C slaves were slaves before they even got on this boat and were tied down and shackle by the way remember weather for we fought and won her independence America they were British French and Spanish colonies fighting over territory and they had slaves Linhart only came down for a power grab it's they had thought that war to free slaves they wouldn't be in the field up until the early 1970s Carpetbaggers didn't only take land they took place call to sharecroppers treating them even more reason to worry
Only Ben Murray Bruce listen to this kanna songs..
I hear them in some of his words, and he simply calls it common sense...
No chance, all despots, as proved over many years. lining their own pockets and bringing ruin to African countries.
All world leaders should my brother
mushishamandawa Absolutely, it's a troubled world we are living in.
I used to crying whenever I listened to this music as a growing up man.. He's the most intelligent Man that ever come out of Nigeria in terms of honesty.. How I wish He was born in our Generation.. He's an Icon born in a wrong generation.. #RIP..FELA
Babatundey You are very correct, he should have been in this our generation. May his soul rest perfect peace.
He was born in the correct generation. Maybe you were born in the wrong generation. Actually you were!!!
God knew what he was doing.
Lol so you think our generation that thinks wizkid and davido are musicians deserves fela??? Go home you re drunk😂😂😂😂 millennials smh
I absolutely agree 💯
I'm so proud to call fela my uncle to think that my dad was around him at the start of such an impactful time in music so crazy ... I'll always be so grateful to have his music as a connection to my roots
U blessed 🙌
He's my uncle too. Yey! Cuzzy!
He is all our uncle na. Who no fit claim am
Felabration
I'm a 17 year old Irish teenager and I am so so happy I discovered Fela and afrobeat in general. a spiritual experience.
19 year old Mexican and I just discovered this glooooory of music, where I live underground/hippie musicians play this type of music at night while people are out on the streets drinking wine
I'm a black cis-gender white girl and I just found out about your channel
enchantrand-esque I'm a homosexual white straight man
Insane Gaming
You even got your username from my reputation. You are a hoaxy cloaksy shame of a username.
how are you understanding his accent?...I'm a Nigerian can't really hear some of the things he says clearly
The man was an absolute legend, inexplicable, beyond words, we didn't appreciate that he was like a teacher/prophet amongst us in Nigeria then. His songs of 30years ago are ever so relevant even today. His warnings about a few Judases amongst us being used by the colonialist, and those traitors getting mega rich, and perpetuating the impoverishment of the populace; still on going 40 years on.
Sun re omo won ni Egba Alake, a giant amongst the GOD forsaken dwarfs that has ever ruled that joke of a country. No electricity in 2015 still, imagine?!!!.
You're absolutely right.. We never appreciate his talents as we suppose to.. 50years from now, his music will still be relevant in Nigeria and Africa at large 🙏🏿
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OLA. ODUS m
I couldn't have put it better.
Mr. Ola...Haha... It's 2018 and there's still no electricity in Nigeria. Infact this is the worst I've ever seen Nigeria been in since when I was born in 1992 in this country. We are really just suffering and smiling!
they said he was mad and every now and then we find that those who said he was mad are the real mad ones. fela for ever.
Plenty of dem things, i don't sing about it
Those that tag baba as a mad man are afraid of his intelligence because he is pro pan Africa
No normal person can change the world you have to be in a certain unique state to have that capacity that is beyond the societies limits and expectations.... that is within us all and it's a choice....as for the level of intelligence that the Man had...was out of this universe... long live Fela ✌🏾
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every true artist is mad, the brain is artistically imbalanced in favor of creativity
"Democrazy" "Crazy Demonstration" Holy shit! That was as deep as the Atlantic Ridge. I've never heard lyrics like these before. Incredible.
BubbleManxx, yes Bubblemannx you are rising as your name suggests...
BubbleManxx the rasta's in jamaica have incorporated the same type of play on words,
Can't tell if sarcasm.
.."crazy demonstration, demonstration of craze,".. legendary stuff
@@CityKid415 James, make an example please!
To the family of mr Fela kuty ( a man with eagle eyes ) don't let no body through word at u to make u be silent.
ur Dad was not the first man to introduce Ganja to Nigerians nor the only man who has many women ,comi g ti analyzed his life and other Afican / Nigerian men Fela was honest and opened in all his ways every child and man knew what he was upto ( doing) .
most of men have many girlfriends in their closet even those whose religion permits them to married only one wife .
what is spoiling Nigerian youth is poverty , injustice ,tribalism ,Religion intolerance ,bad Roads ,lack of equipments in our Hospitals lack of democricy etc ..Fela saw what was coming and he was oreaching and singing it ,but some of us where blind to see and some where deaf to hear, can any listen to his music today and tell me that mr Fela Kuty was mad or singing because he has just finished smoking Ganja or he was singing the truth that was and it is now and even worse then tha t time. . Finally he who has ni sin let him cast the stone on Fela or continue to cast stone .
Fela is a hero since he can smoke Ganja and still stand for the truth and worn us and those of us who are not can not sense the Danger then we may as well smoke it .
he has many women and children and was able to show them lovre and keep them together, and teach them about their culture and to be hard working and law abiding citizen , while those who didnot smoke have secret children ,secret wives,houses that their money (salary )cannot buy . money that they cannot account for on hw they make then smoking Ganja seems ti be better then having a sober mind .
lets' stop the hypocrisy and face reality ,Fela Kuty should be one of our great Heroes because he do what he preach his life was very transparent .
he was nit a christian nir a Muslim,But his life was an open book that all can read ,but how about us who are casting stone at him and his children.? if the night should turn into day ,many of us will run away and wish the ground could ooen to hide ⁿŘ⅝
law wages ,
Knowledge is being fought against by eliminating the righteous Messangers amongst us by the unseen wicked forces. Hold on firmly to the rope of God . Peace to all mi brethren in Africa!
Wivth Love from Somalia!!
so true
preach
dem are crazy
right there is the truth
psq
"Democracy" = "Them are crazy" = Demonstration of Craze. As far as Baba was concerned, we (Africa) practiced "crazy demonstration" not Democracy. Salute to you oh Legend!
DemoCracy= Demon Crazy
@@elizabethbeth-davidysrael1623 😄
I'm overwhelmed... Let's get down to the underground spiritual game. FELA LIVES FOREVER!!!!
I grew up listening to fela's music, all thanks to my dad n our neighbors. Now I'm gonna make sure I bless my children with it too.
What a blessing
this song brought me to tears, I have no idea why. I love his music so much. I wish i heard this on the radio in 1990s
Africa sound is the best!!
I've been listening to Fela's music since my childhood in the early 1970s. I'm now in my 50s, I am still regularly listen to Fela's music. And the music blows my mind, every single time!
+Anengiyefa A Same here...been a Fela fan since I first heard a Fela song in the 1970s - Zombie - when my family relocated back to Nigeria. I'm still listening to Fela to this day. His music still resonates today....an icon for Afro Beats and African music in general. I am very proud of Fela considering we are from the same part of Nigeria - Abeokuta.
maybe you can help me pls, been looking for the song that has 'oro pesi je, oro dihun'..in it...it's stuck on replay in my head pleasee help out with the title. Thank you sir.
Inegbe Kingsley 'Stalemate' I think is the title of that track
Who listening to this Spiritual experience in 2019?
Me ol
Me, love it
I love him
I AM STILL LISTENING.
Me, seen fell in Glastonbury about 1980/81 not sure
Spiritual. Speaks to the soul. The world is better because you passed through here Mr Kuti. Now I need to disowned my Nigerian friends whom I've known for 15 years and have robbed me of your angelic sounds by not introducing your music to me sooner in life. They are not true friends i've come to realised.
Forgive them maybe it wasn't time for you to know him
Aptly captured the mediocrity surrounding Nigeria democracy, politics and leadership. Rest in perfect peace Sir Fela
Fela just hits that place deep in your soul...
Fela touches you in a deep place!
rustedglory1
Indeed
Indeed. Nice instrumental lilicks
rustedglory1 you aint lying. I feel like I'm traveling through space.
I don't know how I find this, but I love it. So glad my first journey to Africa (Ethiopia) next July made me look for African music. Best wishes to all Africans. I pray for a bright African future. Greetings from the Netherlands!
Correct man!
Jurjen Van Der Laan
Thanks for ypur prayer ans wishes Jurjen!!! Good man...thanks a lot!!
Thank you for your love for Africa. Be blessed!
Gelukkig zit je goed.
Fela sang this song in the 80s. so so true about all his lyrics. SHAME ON NIGERIAN LEADERSHIP FROM THE TOP TO BOTTOM. SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!
God bless the black Africans......!
The prophet that was never appreciated lives forever in our minds as the things he sang about become reality in our dear nation-- Rest In Peace Sir🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Starts with toe tapping and head bobbing then moves up your leg giving you chill bumps and before you know, it grabs you by the very soul. A truly remarkable man not to mention an extraordinary musician/artist.Thank you, Fela.
👍❤
Fela is a legend that every wise person that is really concerned about Nigeria and Africa should celebrate
I stumbled upon this magnificent musicians music recently, and have become captive in a way that is unexplainable. I'm African-American with an acquired appetite for unique music from around the world. This is Fly.
Bobby Marsh You're welcome to Fela's world. It's an eureka moment for you the way it was for me. This man makes a breathtaking kind of unique music. You're sooner gonna find out.
Nigeria's greatest statesman. salut
Father before father, father after father, the Abami Eda himself, Orisa , that sax though R.I.P , in my mind are alive with these masterpiece
The African teacher, roots in culture, BIG UP
Fela Fever I'm feeling the vibes, anyone here with me?
There is no end to Fela. I just keep getting further in.
Damn slippery slope leading unstoppably to a pleasure filled addiction. Welcome on board.
You just stepped into quick sand. Happily, no escape
Yeah that rabbit hole is deep
i had the privelege of seeing Fela and the Africa 70 perform live. It was several decades ago. The repetitive beat, incessant rhythmn, shamanic dancing, chanting, full pulsing stage and the thick ganga filled air made for an intoxicating experience. I had to leave after several hours as the never ending pulse was sending me into a trance (which may have been the intention) It was an awesome experience - and not in the west coast teen, gee, fuckwit sort of awesome - but in a total, all encompassing experience. Not necessarily my most enjoyable concert experience but one of the most unforgettable.
King we Nigerians love you forever. Rest well our baba
fela was way ahead of his times, an authentic artist with authentic music!!
he is one of the people that sing the song that makes sense his songs never die
So called at artist in Nigeria today only sings Adama shake your waist.
Yeah he rose above his musical genre to become a legend... His music and spirit will live on forever! FELA KUTI
Oh! What a gift to the African people....such a great treasure.....
Gift to the world Sandile ...
Thank you Fela, you wrote us a long autobiography essay, and we love it....History shall forever be kind to you...Thank you Baba 70.Abami Eda
after fela died this style of music continue to go ahead,and to high dimension.TRUE MUSIC
Père de l afrobeat ,révélation de la conscience africaine, il a semé le réveil, nous lui devons de récolter les fruits de son engagement au prix de sa vie.
Greatest african musician of all time ! As goggle now😎😎😎😎
The legend of all time, Fela that better than all Nigeria politicians!
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
Wow !!!❤
"Educated Fools from Uneducated Schools" - Curtis Mayfield
The Pseudo is correct, from 14.37 in the song Fela clearly says go to various countries like Britain, France, Iran, Korea etc, it's their culture that is A TEACHER to them (and no African country gets a mention in his list) , fela then goes on at about 16.04 to say 'who be our teacher, na oyinbo' he talks about the travesty of democracy in Nigeria then 17:52 'I NO GREE TO FOLLOW OYINBO STYLE', he goes on to tear apart democracy as practiced in nigeria and supported by the west as DEMONSTRATION OF CRAZY,from what I listened to the core of the song is still that Africans should follow their own culture to teach/govern them. Basically if Africans were not following other people's culture it would not be in a position where it is getting it wrong and being taken advantage of. Fela also briefly notes that as for the teachers not correcting the wrong in what was being practiced clearly was paying them some kind of dividend hence they not only didn't correct them but additionally supported the wrong doing.
Thanks for the explanation. Are you Nigerian?
Great Breakdown makes Absolute Sense
The genius of Fela is indescribable. He was a phenomenon in a class of his own.
Facts
I was in luv with this song as young as i was 7yrs old..... Fela is a genius
Philosophy is a critique of pure reason, how did dis guy come to that without a world record. Am amazed at his analogy of the school system and his exposure of the British inability to say to Shagari or the military that they are wrong. Because of what the want to steal.
Gerald Ndubisi yes that's right
The nation was laid on a bad foundation
Shagari🐓? Nigeria's, Donald Trump🐷. Despite everything, Nigeria was still ahead when it comes to voting for a dumbo🐘 to be their head of state. The irony of it all😜.
I am 15 years now and I love fela music because he is an inspiration to me ,he my mind alot . he give me the power to express my mind
Muheez Kukoyi timeless music.
Muheez Kukoyi hold on to this type of mindset then you are all set for life
God bless you young one. Keep drinking from the well of ideas and inspiration.
Same! I guess you’re 18 now though
@@grapes4832 what if he's still 15
Feel the greatest.....if the messages in his music are still relevant in Africa, especially Nigeria, it then means that we are just static, not making any progress. You don't have to be a christian or muslim to attain the prophet status because Fela's messages are prophesies in their own right. May God save us......but we need to save ourselves first.
fela has said it , let go, let go and take care of Africa , The mother land.
this tickles my brain and makes me feel really good and a bit silly at the same time...
i love this
Sonorous is his voice, speaking reality that travels through time to register his foreknowledge in the present situation of Africa, even till tomorrow... Fela, a messenger
Honestly i bleed inside where we've found ourself, we hid not to the single loudest voice warning of the unknown to come as we embrace foreign cultures . FELA your spirit live on forever, you've shape my mind and my personality
Still crying my love. Africa oh Africa.
My favorite Fela recording, At 6:25 minutes in experience one of the most powerful sax performances of all time. Don't jump directly to it though; this masterpiece is a journey that must be experienced from beginning to end. You will be enlightened by the conclusion, even if you don'y completely comprehend pidgin. Love the phonetic play on words, democracy to themallcrazy.
Yes absolute bliss!!!!
You are absolutely right w
Genius... His music is even more relevant to us All now in 2020
That's Y.S. Fela's saxophonist. One of the best 👍🏾
So Happy to have found such BEAUTIFUL MUSIC!! AFRICA!! YASSSSS!!💯💯💕💕👏👏💃💃FELA!!
Fela, still relevant in 2020.. Timeless Afro-beat / Afro-jazz high-life 👏👏🔥
This was a straight gift from God. Blessing
So true...
Oh what a performance it was thirty years ago this month at The Fox Theater in Detroit ! The brash horns were the politically charged counterpoint to the hypnotic rhythm and raw tribal sway of the dance line with Fela and his numerous wives. The man was a force on and off stage, an enduring voice against oppression.
Listening to Fela's music virtually puts you on a whole different level. Feeling so inspired to challenge the status quo and raise myself above limits. #FelaLives 🙏
Fela Kuti this man was an absolute legend, a national body the only man at his time who speaks of truth and was made by God to fight for the Anticipation of the black Race, man of freedom we wish not to let you go, a born Africa black and proud never let go Orientation, Culture, and Tradition of my people , man of truth only God knows why you go this way, fela for ever....
Point of correction he is not was.A Legend can never die
Thanks for helping us relive this legend, he was a prophet who saw the problems Nigeria would encounter today it is glaring and Baba created his own beat. Baba we salute your LEGACY
Fela was one of African prophet...what he sang about its happening today across Africa and world. Rest in peace the Son of Ramsone Kuti i will always love you.
fela is one in a million...your legacy will live for ever
It’s mind blowing to listen to this one great son of Africa playing his mind & feelings all out!....One & only Fela!...Kete gets a lot of inspiration from this pieces👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿...
the best song I have listened to my WHOLE LIFE!!!!!!!!
this guy is one of a kind his lyrics so relaxing I could listen to his music the whole day with no boredom what so ever
Baba 70..The originator of Afro-Beat!
I wonder what music I have been listening to. I need new friends. Love it here. 😜
Fela your artistry should be thought in Nigeria educational curriculum from grade schools to university. You are the founder of Afrobeat. You spoke the voice of humanity. The raw truth is pain, blinding to the victimize as well as those perpetrating the evil. TRUTH cannot be silent. The TRUTH is louder today than ever before, our Nigerian leaders have failed. The suffering of Nigerians is echoing very LOUD. You are a legend for ever. A freedom warrior for all human suffering. Anybody can relate.
You meant needs to be Taught.
So beautifully said Thank you, For Life FELA
That conscious groove is what I need right now
Demo-cracy, Cracy-demo. Demonstration of cracy, Cracy-demonstration
LEGEND!!!! If you are looking for the best example of a nigerian, it is this man.
How sad I discover you today? How sad I listened to noises while the purest gem remain hidden from my discovery, and this was played many years before technology was conceived?
Fela Kuti your music give pleasure to all senses.
who love him can try listen both sons Femi and Seun their got same blood and soul
The King Of Afrikan Music 👑🎷🇳🇬
The Legend of all time. The Prophet of our time, still speaking eloquently like the first day I heard him on national TV. Now I understand what he "is" teaching for I was too young to comprehend his depth and breadth. God bless you the Great one.
Fela used his musical talents to fight injustice; from a white man or black man. He never proclaimed to be perfect, obviously from his personal life. He is an icon and an idol to many who don't know one end of the sax to the other.
Problems of inflation. Problems of corruption.. Love Fela!
giants fan it's sad that this is still our problem
Fela was Fela, he wasn't Peter Tosh of Africa or any of that..he was himself.
Leave Peter Tosh or anybody else out of it.
Fela! was Fela!
FULL STOP!
@@kolawoleolatunbosun261 Teach!
As a Nigerian, I always find psychological consolation within. He was a prophet, who lived ahead of his time. Himself, and Nelson Mandela were the two people that had an overbearing influence on the World stage, in the last century, according to TIMES Magazine...Great Guy.
And I heard that his son is carrying on his legacy, bringing the world more of his kind of music.
Yes
His sons actually. They're pretty good!
Comprehensively, lyrical African songs artist- gifted with instrumental jazz, & drums. A gift of all nations.
remember this song when my cousin came from army have the CD this is cool we from SA
Man...growin man..and I’m discovering this cat now?...lovin it man!
This year i have found new music new sounds on UA-cam it all blows me away hits every nerve a new reason to go on in life we all struggle day to day every time i listen and watch Fela it lifts me now i am listening to his son watching a great performance by Femi just like his father. wow
you are right Peter Tosh is Good ,and many others. But Anikulapo Kuti is in a different category , he is raw. abeg this guy is great in his own way. So is Peter great in his own way.
I Know, plus i dey understand every song of Fela
Accept all our Greatness
ONLY MAN THAT CARRY DEATH IN HIS POCKET .......................WE NEED YOU TO COME BACK AND TEACH THEM REAL THINGS....................LEGEND FOR LIFE
I remember during South Africa Apartheid, as a child asking my Sister where does this man singing come from she said Brazil (it was a song called Lady) so many of his songs were banned in Apartheid "Lady and Shakara" were the only two we got to hear in our Radio stations.
It was only when I got to Tertiary that i began to know and understand what Fela represent and faught for
Relaxed misty music, I am felling sounds of Africa in backgroud. Bravo!
I can not stop moving!
That's Fela music for you!!!!
Fela Kuti sings about Austerity @15:42 on , wow The guy "is " a prophet . who else is listening in 2020 ?
2021, and on and on and on........
lol teacher done teach me nonsense all my life ooo at uni level i passed coz of what i had read out of my own interest and wat life done taught me oo. fela was right all along.. now i will make sure my daughter dont get taught nonsense in plenty..
Fela lives through his music. He left behind a body of art’s masterpiece for the future generation to relish
Music so good its a religious experience, nah, not religious, hell with religion.....a spiritual experience.
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Methadone4Life 🙌 I feel so good listening to Fela!
Ebony Gray Me too Ebony! Fela and Femi... the fact that they speak up against corruption and for the people makes the music even more powerful.
The reality, man.
nah just astral experience.. spirituality is much over..
The great prophet indeed. Baba RIP
Love this 80s track, to me it sounds like cool water feels on a hot and sunny day.
Africa will unite and stand as one nation. ❤️💛💚
baba fela o. me & you no dey the same category. RIP 🖒👍👍👍
The best African teacher.