Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight
Artist: Fela Kuti | Label: Knitting Factory | Format: LP | Genre: World Music | Vinyl Condition: Mint | Cover Condition: Sealed
Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70
Roforofo Fight
A Re-issue from Knitting Factory Records
An underrated early classic. The first song (all of side one), Roforofo Fight is urgent and upbeat and fierce, while the other (all of side two), Go Slow, is cooler and looser and, atypical of Fela’s output. By 1972, when Roforofo Fight was originally released, 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 - and because he generally sang in Broken English rather than Yoruba, and adopted an increasingly pan-Africanist outlook, his message resonated throughout Anglophone Africa.
Side One is Roforofo Fight
Side Two is Go Slow
NEW SEALED LP from Knitting Factory Records courtesy of Kalakuta Sunrise
