Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Coffin For Head Of State (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP which was first released in

which was first released in 2005 on the French CD compilation Disko Cabine

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Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Coffin For Head Of State (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP which was first released inIn 1977, the government of Nigeria had enough of Fela Kuti and decided to take evasive action on his walled in residence that he called the Kalakuta Republic (Fela declared it a separate state). Over a thousand soldiers descended on the compound and savagely beat the residents. Fela himself escaped death (but not incarceration), but his activist mother was thrown through a window and broke her hip causing an injury that would take her life within that