FELA KUTI - "Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense" (2/3)

[aleda777]

Moma

[pchantreau]

30 years and not a wrinkle. The underground spiritual game lives on...

[dele70s]

this is amzing, a song of yester years that will forevver remain. Its like a newly released album. Fela will forever be. Suuuuun reeeee oooo Olufela.

[Woleinka]

Fela, your legacy will live on as long as the earth remaineth, you have not only laid a foundation of truth, honesty to the core, transparency, boldness for the future Nigeria relatively the future of Africa but also, having inspired many musicians like myself ,many worldwide and still after youre gone continues to inspire many.

Baba 70 sun re o, my brother, father, uncle, friend..you will be forever missed...Uncle Koye, Uncle Beko, Mama Kuti, Sola...may you all continue rest in the Lords peace

[damilohun92]

classic call and response style of music. James brown Initiative..jazz.

[lunaone]

Amazing show!!!

[mjdghost]

Fela was the truth

[didirat]

the original material is yours? could it be digitalized better?

cause its a great show that one in amsterdam!

[lovelyricos]

fela was amazing

[junity4real]

doesnt he even have lyrics in his music or am I being inpatience..he is not saying anything al I hear is just talking and drums playing

[mickieggie]

@junity4real

You're being impatient.

The dialect his people spoke is pidgeon English. There is a site that has the lyrics and the political significance of his songs, but I have all of that information in storage now (I had to do research for a workshop I was in for the now Broadway show FELA! I played his mother in the workshop).

Be patient :)

You'll get to groove to his songs, as well as eventually follow what he's saying.

[junity4real]

@mickieggie yeah I know cos i am his people,he is Nigerian and I am Nigerian I perfectly understand pidgeon english...but that is besides the point,I know he is prolly a legend in Music but you can agrees with me that the interval between the drums and the actual song is too much especially for impatient people like me..

[cocolahtay]

@mickieggie technically the dialect he spoke was Yoruba. Most of us nigerians (and really most west africans) speak pidgin it's not really a dialect per se

[mickieggie]

@cocolahtay But you have to admit that ENGLISH is not your people first language (nor is it our people's first language, though it's all we know). Your people converted the colonized language into your own, even if Yoruba is your people's first dialect (I'd already knew this from us studying Fela's people for the workshop for the play). ENGLSH is the white man's language; Pidgeon ("Pidgin" as you'd spelled it) is a way you'd made it your own, like we'd made it here in the States "Jive""Ebonics"

[mickieggie]

@cocolahtay

Plus, when we were studying pidgeon (or as you'd spelled it "Pidgin"), the professor listed it as a dialect,...not my words, the professor's

[cocolahtay]

@mickieggie Yes we did but there are about 250 different dialects in Nigeria. i.e. from actual languages (Yoruba is just one and I'm not yoruba, hausa or Igbo btw there are many ways to be a Nigerian) that are not english derived in any way. perhaps our classification is different. People don't really think of pidgin (that's how it's usually spelled) as a language in the same way as they would think of the others. at best it's more of a slang/ partial linguafranca thing .

[mickieggie]

@cocolahtay

I'd never denied that there are different dialects in Nigeria nor any other country in AFrica, (again, I'd learned that when I was studying about Fela for the play). I'd never said that, nor am I arguing with you. What I DID say was that English (as well as French and Spanish, which I am adding), are EUROPEAN LANGUAGES that the white man brought over there when he colonized Africa...it wasn't nor isn't the original language there! Why you're arguing that fact...I don't know.

[mickieggie]

@cocolahtay

I'd also said that you'd made the colonized language your own, just like the black people whom African people sold to the white man, did in America (Jive, Ebonics, etc.) as well as in other countries they were sold and brought to (Jamaica, Trinidad, Portugal, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominica Republic, St. Maartens, St. Kitts,...I can go on & on); we all made our own patoi with the white man's language...

I didn't deny nor argued with what you'd said <shrugging my shoulders>

[cocolahtay]

@mickieggie

1 not arguing with you. too bad u feel defensive

2.i'm providing info: pidgin is not really a dialect that was the whole point

3. I didn't sell anyone.

[cocolahtay]

@mickieggie I am an academic . i saw that there was a gap and i tried to provide info that was based on the benefit of my life experience for your benefit. Simply that pidgin is not really considered a dialect in Nigeria. you made a comment about africans selling other africans knowing that i'm African. That seemed unusual and defensive.

[mickieggie]

@cocolahtay

I was just stating a fact about the diaspora, you took it as being unusual and defensive. That I cannot help. I'm glad that you're an academic, proud even...but why you feel the need to tell me that? It shouldn't matter too much for you to say that to me, be it that you do not know me. It shouldn't matter, we don't know each other. As my brother-in-law used to say when people do that, "What are you doing? Braggin' or complainin'?"

Please stop, okay? I don't want to report you

[slajaa]

coooool

[geligurl]

he smoked while on stage?? thats awesome!!

[cocolahtay]

@geligurl WEED. he smoked WEED on stage. the guy was just badass

[bigbowldrop]

baba lives on!!!

ABAMI EDA .. DEM STILL DEY YAB DEM SELF O!!

[blawww1]

la la la la, Miss u Baba oooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[kwekuafroolmec]

yes fela kuti rip in uhuru! rest in uhuru!

[shukti0]

Kool

[7olusegun]

Fela; Rust In Piece.

[Lillkronkan]

Yeah-Yeah!

[London2ATL]

Gbayi!

Abeg can u get bbc anyone there pls,the tune is big blind country tune{BBC}.everybody say yea yea!!

Bless&thanks.

[llonpeto]

Gbayi, Na Olumari dey greet you .Shobby paddy

[YOOTUBEDOTCOM]

ask femi and seun hy they refuse to release this musics including abop, cop, mass, jaga jagga, condom.....yootubedotcom has no choice but to sing these songs ourselves

[housof]

gooooood

[Chubam77]

Africa original

[zookat]

Heeeey-heeey...

Kerekeke, kerekeke-ji keke (Yaah)

Keji-keke, Keji-keke (Yaah)

Kerekeke, kerekeke-ji keke (Yaah)

Keji-keke, Keji-keke  (Yaah)

Kerekeke, kerekeke-ji keke (Yaah)

Keji-keke, Keji-keke (Yaah)

Kerekeke, kerekeke-ji keke (Yaah)

Keji-keke, Keji-keke (Yaah)

Kereke... (Yaah)

[Africanmistress29]

RIP Fela Kuti