Arts + Culture
“Zombie no go walk unless you tell am to walk”: the Fela song that Nigeria’s soldiers never forgave
Fela Kuti's Zombie, released in Nigeria in 1976 by Coconut Records, mocked soldiers who obey orders without thinking.…
Zombie
Arts + Culture
A thousand soldiers, a burning house and a mother thrown from a window: the Kalakuta raid that shaped Fela
On 18 February 1977, about 1,000 soldiers stormed Fela Kuti's Lagos compound, burned it and threw his 77-year-old…