Fela Kuti - Music Is the Weapon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti
http://www.fela.net/

Category:

Music

Tags:

• afrobeat
• nigeria
• lagos
• jazz
• sax
• africa
• Anikulapo
• documentary

[weegiebam]

gret documentary, thanks

[GOOSY81]

na waoh one of im wife dey cook dey smoke igbo @19:57

[josbowie]

“When you’re the king of African music, you are the king. Cause music is king of all professions"

[GeysianeGomes1]

Miles Davis: "Nós criamos estilos de músicas, mas Fela criou um gênero!"

[1InAMlIoN]

:( this is my first time watching this...

[mendene]

@underthealmighty Point well taken, but it depends on your definition of "enslaved". I was referring to names given to Africans in the cross Atlantic slave trade, not by socio-political influence. For example, many people carry foreign names through Christianity, other religions, family history . I suppose you could call that enslavement as well. At any rate, my point was that Fela's name "Ransome" did not come from slavery as his family was not enslaved in the slave trade sense of the word.

[underthealmighty]

@mendene i think you need a history lesson beloved. it is because of Fela's study of history that he chose to change his name. Ransome is the name of a foreign power, a foreign power that enslaved the minds of the native people.

[mendene]

If so, that is clearly spoken for effect, not factually, as there's no question that Fela and his family are original Africans who have never been enslaved... Most likely rhetoric borrowed during his stay in America (assuming you're correct that he did say that)

[hogan523]

@mendene Fela himself said Ransome was a slave name that's why he changed it to Anikulapo.

[GuilhermeGuimaraens]

Have you heard of compulsory work? Even if is not a slave name, the name was given by an opressor. Was a preacher who gave Ransome. Negerian never were cristian until they were obligated to be. So i totally agree with the name change. They were opressed by that people, you waould not like to have a name that was given by an person that was never invited to be on your contry, and tried to put an end in all the thing you believed.

FELA!!!!!