Partisan Records
Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight (50th Anniversary Edition, Transparent Orange & Green Vinyl)
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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.
The
50th-anniversary
reissue
of
Roforofo
Fight
is
pressed
on
double
yellow
&
green
vinyl.
Side
D
features
singles
"Shenshema"
and
"Ariya"
on
vinyl
for
the
first
time.
The
two
tracks
were
originally
released
as
a
7"
single
in
1972
and
later
featured
in
the
CD
reissue
of
"Roforofo
Fight
/
The
Fela
Singles".
Tracklist:
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
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