Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight 50th Anniversary 2x Yellow & Green Vinyl LP
by Fela Kuti
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Condition: New
50th Anniversary 2x Yellow & Green Vinyl LP
Catalogue Number: KFR2006-8
Barcode: 720841206682
Record Grading: Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)
Condition Note: Brand New
Track Listing / Description
SIDE A:
1. Roforofo Fight
SIDE B:
1. Go Slow
SIDE C:
1. Question Jam Answer
2. Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
SIDE D:
1. Shenshema
2. Ariya
By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one of the most avidly followed musicians in West Africa. His audience came from among the region's urban poor, the "sufferheads" living in the shanty towns around the major cities, along with growing numbers of students and political dissenters. Fela championed, and sang about the problems of, oppressed and exploited people and denounced the ruling elites lording it over them, with their seemingly endemic corruption and their ready use of violence to crush dissent. Because he generally sang in Broken English rather than Yoruba, and adopted an increasingly pan-Africanist outlook, his message resonated throughout Anglophone Africa.