"Good evening." "This evening we present Fela and African '70." "Their music is full of politics." "The musician Fela do not fight for money, but for justice." "He fights against suffering and for his people." "Err Anikulapo-Kuti!" "Here he is!" "Fela Kuti was Nigeria's most famous musicians." "I do not want to brag again, my brothers and sisters." "I want to show myself as African." "I want you will see me as something useful" "As you know nothing about." "For 99.9 percent of the information we get about Africa is wrong." "After colonialism broke out a brutal civil war in Nigeria" "As followed decades of military regimes." "In the 1970s, spoke Fela Kuti for revolution." "When one is revolutionary and tells the truth" "slår people down." "If you are telling the truth again they lock into a prison." "If you are telling the truth again, they can killing one and burn down your house." "They burned down my house." "They told me not tell the truth again, but I SA that I will continue until they can not do more." "For truth can not die." "In 2009, 12 years after Err Kuti dead" "dök his history up in an unlikely place." ""Why do you do this?" It is a form of entertainment." ""Want to make money?" "Will you destroy Fela? "" ""Err is underground, and that he should remain. "" ""He's an underground icon." "Want to change it?" "What's in it? "" "Great musicians are not only great because of their talent." "They are also great because of their time." "It is true for Fela, Bob Marley and John Coltrane." "For many years people felt not to Fela outside Nigeria." "He was brave and fought against oppression and dictatorship." "He neglected the consequences of it." "We are 100 000 people here today." "We are the people's movement." "We can fight our corrupt ledare and get our country to reflect who we are." "He devoted his life to, and often he risked his life" "to combat 'misrule and corruption." "And they beat him Again and again." "Help us to say: "Yes!" "Yes!"" "Say yes!"" "Say yes!"" "He is not afraid to fall in prison because of his music." "I have given out 16, discs" "and can not imagine to end up in prison because of them." "Say yes!"" "He blackened bottom of the press." "They saw him as a nihilist." "He was an incredible man and paid a high price for their opinions." "And here we have a play   that makes so everyone can understand what he fought for." "My name Fela Anikulapo-Kuti." "I have death in my bag." "No mortal man can kill me." "Let us turn Nigeria upside down." "The government does not dare to come near me." "I do what I want." "So yes!" "Make me at your next black president." "Two years before the play reaches Broadway" "Ladies and gentlemen, we must continue." "Take your seats for the beginning of act first" "Marina, I have thought of what you said last night." "You thought we were trying to be for entertaining." "I think many may be difficult for Fela nowadays." "You said ..." "How did you find him?" "Someone you do not understand and that we can not relate to." "But he is both completely insane and very inspiring." "They want to follow the saint ..." "Is he a saint or a madman?" "When we started the questions were about Fela not answered." "Neither of his family in Nigeria or of those who hated him." "We assume most do not know who Fela was." "Note that as many sophisticated human ple have not heard of him." "We have to start from scratch." "Err, how did you as a musician?" "Thanks mom." "And dad who got me to play the piano when I was nine." "And I led my school choir." "There is one important thing that people do not realize about Fela." "He began with religious music." "His school, Abeokuta Grammar School, was religious." "Fela's family was prominent." "His mother fought against colonialism." "His father helped created it education in West Africa." "They were trained, which means that they were Christians." "He experienced Christian music and the local yorubareligionens music." "Songs." "The liturgical and ritual music." "It was that which gave his music such a facility." "I want you to feel the rhythm." "Beat time so that you can feel it." "Now." "I knew Fela Kuti." "He spoke about freedom and policy" "and you could shake her ass to his music." "I knew that." "But he stood us not as close as Bob Marley." "Bob Marley also had clenched fists and was against the Euro but he was easier." "Err was more sophisticated." "Now we know it." "Now we can dance." "I have always wanted to climb into Fela brain." "I want to feel what he felt, rather than see what he ..." "We've all tried to do it." "And the text we have chosen relying mostly on his songs." "He said: "Listen to my music so you get to know a part of me. "" "There are songs that are about." "Fela's music had been smoldering" "And it got me to dance." ""What is it about?"" "I do not know what he's singing about, so we need help with." "I'm Working on it." "Yes, but I need help." "Bill and I only: "You're kidding."" "Fela's songs are 45 minutes long and has no structure." "Musicals are the other way around." "What do we mean by that no newspaper can ..." "We discovered his songs are about his life." "And they are very personal." "When we started, I felt I did Fela flat." "That's why I do not like musicals." "Everything is so volatile." ""This and this so that we can get it here. "" "We must captivated by his courage, for he was brave." "We need to be with him in his fight for social justice." "And we must realize he was an original musician." "He created something new." "He was both synthetic engineer and visionary." "But he is not clean." "He's dangerous." "We'll show them." "Yes!" "We'll show them." "Come on!" "Do you understand?" "Use your charm and get them to stand on your side." "We can not go as deep as I con" "But we can show people a two- dimensional version of the fighter Fela." "My first week in New York said my manager online sites:" ""You have to see the play about Fela."" "And I just, 'What?" "'" "And she: "Yes, a play about Fela."" "And she said the magic words:" ""And Antibalas's band."" "I fear Antibalas." "They are one of few American bands that I fear." "They worshiped Fela." "They could already his discography." "I remember the first day when we went through it." "We have shekeres, but I do not know if we use them directly." "It was tense between Antibalas founder and me." ""What a talking drum?" "Fela did not use the talking drums. "" "I was worried." ""Are they going to change it?"" ""How to access Fela's music the songs are 22 minutes? "" "It struck in the abdomen at me." "Significantly." "Fela's bike has traveled around the world." "We are at the Africa Shrine." "When performed where Err He called the Africa Shrine." "His nightclub Shrine was in the yard at an old hotel." "He had a big, red map of the Africa" "hyllningar to his favorites among African ledare four platforms where women could dance, smoke ..." "It was warm." "Most of which were males between 30 and 40." "They focused on him." "Everyone was there." "Stevie Wonder." "James Brown's musicians." "Shrine was full every day." "It was in the heart of Africa." "Talk about the black experience." "We were the only white people there." "It was very intense." "The music made me cry." "It was an incredible musical moments before the band was incredible." "On Tuesdays got women to go in for free." "In The morning, the women's evening." "All Women in town." "If they come." "On Saturdays he performed an African worship." "And the girls did a great show." "Fridays were "yabis"." "He talked about the problems in society." "He criticized individuals in the government." "It is a pity that people do not have described the Nigerian government." "For the first time I have seen something so that I can describe it." "You can not say Nigeria is capitalist." "And we have not apartheid." "Yabis was interesting for the audience could talk about different issues." "And Fela said:" ""Oh, my brother." "Are you mad?"" "I'll tell you what I have experienced." "And those thoughts developed into a song." "And Fela wrote it." "I saw him write a song once." "They already had the music for it." "He took a pen and just ..." "He did not stay up and went through it." "I do not lie." "He just ..." "A typical song by Fela ..." "We take "Opposite People" as an example." "He begins by saying, "Opposite People," it's title." "Fela used to insert instruments one at a time." "It was dramatic." "It was so adrenaline-filled." "Rehearsal." "The cycle will be larger and affects more and more." "When he is ready reassure down." "And just when you think it is the starting song." "In the middle, he used to sing a little on pidgin." "It was crucial to his career" "for pidgin was lingua Franca for English-speaking West Africa." ""They will show themselves." "Yes." "The will prove to be very clear. "" ""Wherever they are they will show that is the opposite of people. "" "And then the choir sings ..." "And then suddenly the wind instruments in." "It just begins." ""Yes, those chords." All sets in motion." "And I play my part." "He looks around. "Is everyone doing?"" "And he winks at me." ""Oh, he noticed that I was with."" "Say: "Yes!" "Yes!"" "Whether you know us well or are new and curious of what we do here" "Are we happy that so many of you here tonight." "This is my youth music." "When it was evening that mattered." "I socialized with Lagos coolest guy." "J. K. Braimah." "Fela was very naive at that time." "He was a rascal, but he was calm and calculating." "He knew nothing about women." "I went out with him." "We sneaked out and partied every night." "The girls ... music ..." "High Life!" "Highlife was associated with Ghana and musicians such as E. T. Mensa." "But Nigerian musician Victor Olaiya played with E.T." "Do you hear highlife wind instruments?" "When I was little I wanted to play as." "You know how it is when you are small and want something." "Man lying." "I told my mother that I wanted study for a doctor in London." "Fela's life was fun." "He had to go on every class in the school." "He was a stupid academically speaking." "His brother Beko went to England to study for a doctor." "When Fela got there Beko said, "You can not of this." "It is difficult."" ""Do something simpler." "You play the piano." "Study music instead. "" "He was 19, and that is the late to start studying music." "In England, I began to realize:" ""Oh, white people like us do not."" "I wanted to rent a room and watched the ads in the newspapers." ""Houses to rent." "No colored humans." "No dogs. "" "In England, I began to realize how it was to be African." "He went from Abeokuta Grammar School to Trinity College in London." "It is a classic school." "I was not interested in classical music." "I wanted to play jazz." "I studied classical music and went out and listened to jazz." "He must play the piano and to the instruments." "He chose the trumpet." "I played trumpet and listened to Miles and Dizzy." "He told he went to a club." "He thought he was so clever and played a trumpet solo." "He played false, and everyone made fun of him." "His friend Wally Boknor ran away with his trumpet case." "When he went away all saw him." ""Oh, it was he who was so poor."" "When Fela came back from London he wanted to play jazz." "I met Fela when he tried to start a jazz band." "He had tried to find someone who played drums and was disappointed." ""No one can play the drums in this country. "" "I met him." "He said: "You plays drums." "Can you play jazz? "" "I said, "Of course."" "Tony loved jazz." "Jazz revolutionized the drums for him." "They fitted perfectly." "The first two years they played jazz." "They sounded a bit like Kinda Blue." "But people did not like it in Nigeria." "People wanted to dance to highlife." "Highlife was dying out in the 60s." "Everyone tried to crack the code. "How can we take high life to the next level? "" "When I started my band, I wanted Combining jazz and highlife." "This song was recorded live at the Central Hotel." "It's called "Lai See"." "He wanted to create a form of highlife which was mixed with jazz." "With many wind instruments solos and much energy." "Everything I do with my music, mix highlife jazz, försvinner" "When the bluff from Sierra Leone, Gerald Pines, or Geraldo Pino will -66 to town with his new equipment." "He can not play- but he is loud and stealing from James Brown." "I see that James Brown teaches changing Africa forever." "Soul music was a big influence from the United States." "In the 60s, everyone wanted update the high life with soul music." "We go to stage 3." "Los Angeles." "Hot weather." "Sandy beaches." "Girls everywhere." "Beautiful close-ups." "Beautiful African-American girls." "The shy type. "Black power!"" ""We'll show them!" "Whatever it takes!"" "I fell in love with African-Americans." "It was a beautiful time." "You could go to a club" "and meet eachother who turned your world upside down." "Juno Lewis picked me." "A group had come to town, and they played at Bill-of-Fare." "Juno insisted I would go there." "I only: "Yes, yes ..."" "We went there." "When I entered I looked up at the scene." "And the guy on stage looked me straight in the eye." "And it was like ..." "There was something between us." "A spiritual center connected us together from the beginning." "I heard the band play, but I was not impressed." "Fela's music had no substance." "At the first rehearsal I heard he sang in Yoruba." "I asked what he was singing rebuilding and he was so proud when he said that he was singing about soup." "I started laughing." "At the time, people in the US know." "Black people were proud." "James Brown told:" ""I am black and proud."" "We had just discovered it." "Knowledge was little by little." "I began to see differences and became very, very angry." "We must be strong." "Black power makes us strong!" "You black people in the United States ..." "You've done as if "black power" inspired by Africa." "It is clear that it does." ""Look here." "The knowledge contained in this book. "" ""Do research." "Do not like that unless you know better. "" "I made him embarrassed." "I was so relentless." "I was ready to fight." "She told me about Africa." ""Do not you know that Africans Europeans learned anything? "" "I said, "That's bullshit."" ""No, there are books who says it. "" Show me. "" "She gave me Malcolm X's book." "We need to strike a blow, and we must to agree on the kind of stroke." "He said that Malcolm X, Sandra and Black Panthers changed his life." "1970 I went to Nigeria." "When the aircraft door opened rushed everything to me." "My ancestors greeted me." "Everything was different." "The air, the smell, the colors ..." "A lot of colors." "Women carrying children on their backs and balanced food on your head." "So I was in Nigeria and was proud and happy." "I was in love." "I was there with my husband." ""This is life."" ""I'm in Africa." But it was a culture shock." "I did not know Fela married." "If I had known it had we have not spoken to each other now." "But I was taken for a ride." "He had Remi, his wife, and Yamary and Yunis." "He talked about them, but not until I was already in love." "I tried to understand me, on the whole, but it was not easy." "I had met an African man who would teach me about Africa." "This is Brother Err Ransome-Kuti." "I want to say a few things." "Men are born." "Kings created." "Treaty is signed." "War is fought." "This was after the Civil War in Nigeria." "Or Biafran War." "I knew nothing about war." "There has been a war in West Africa in two years." "It is a civil between Biafra engines and Nigerians." "Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970 was terrible." "It was bloody and left a scar in the nation's psyche." "It is impossible to forget that men, women and children" "drogs from their beds and slaughtered." "Biafra were Igbo engines, the Catholic minority, who rebelled in the East." "Against yoruberna in the south and hausafolket in the north." "Igbo are felt discriminated against late Nigeria became självständigt and wanted to form their own country." "It had probably been able to do" "But around the same time was found major oil sources in the area." "Then the war broke out." "We have fought a long and bitter battle." "And common sense has won." "Our united country has triumphed." "Because of the oil ..." "It was very destabiliserande" "When the country had suddenly several billion dollars." "It led to corruption." "The land was inverted socially and economically." "And that is the basis to today's Nigeria." "Fela had not been necessary if it were not for the oil's effects." "To tell him about the music ..." "It was the first lesson." "I told him that music should educate people." ""You have a platform." "Use the music to lift people's minds. "" "I smiled when I got the idea. "Oops."" "I started singing about Africa in my tracks." "I thought:" ""Oh, people will like me."" "When his vision was expanded it was noticed in the music." "He continued to work on the model in Nigeria." "1970-1971 music became more vampaktig." "Vamp is when you stick a tonne." "It does not change chords." "So there." "As "Egbe Mi O"." "It was James Brown's influence." "And then he had the guitar." "So there." "It was then that Afrobeat was born." "Tony Allen in L.A. also had developed some new stuff." "When we collaborated he asked what I wanted to play." "I started playing the drums and tested different stuff." "And he said: "Yes, like that."" "He was a brilliant architect." "He took the various delarna and put them together and created polyrhythm." "He knew that Tony could find the right pattern for the structure." "He got it all stand out." "Tony Allen was equally disciplined as a soldier." "Have you ever tried to play afrobeat in 22 minutes?" "He does not..." "He does not do so." "He is dynamic." "You can dance to it, but it is never straight forward." "There was a synergism between Fela and Tony in Africa '70." "They were ready to explode." "Africa '70 had an eye." "They had more track than anything else of Fela's bands." "Africa '70 was one of the best live bands after World War II." "One thinks of Parliament-Funkadelic when they were at their best." "You think of Bob Marley's Wailers." "Africa '70." "He said to his brothers, that he would succeed." "He said: "I'll be successful." They simply: "You?" "Successful?"" "His music became huge." "He recorded a disc - "JEUN K'oku"." "And it was really popular." "All played "JEUN K'oku" everywhere." "And he was crazy." "He got his first big check and showed it to his brothers." "There were 45,000 naira." "There was a lot of money in the 70s." "He put the check on the table. "Have you seen so much money before? "" ""I told you I would be successful. "" "Then he met a Nigerian girl who showed him what grass was." "He did not show that he smoked grass, but my father was honest." "He said:" ""I can not hide it for the band."" "He called Tony Allen, Baba Ani and the others and said:" ""I have a secret." "I smoke weed. "" "They just:" ""So what?" "That do we all."" "He said: "Do you?" It was one big party." "You Forgot the magic word." "Puff, Puff, go." ""Puff, puff, go." It is the magic word in the evening." "I work so hard on the set." "Should I just give it to you?" "I must enjoy before I get others to enjoy." "I met Fela in elementary school." "I was in the same class as some of his nephews." "Sometimes we went and looked at when he appeared." "He was so talented." "The whole world was listening to him." "We wanted to live the same life as him." "No behaved as he did." "He smoked grass everywhere and surrounded by young women and singers." "He was a rock star." "He was probably the first major alternative culture hero of Africa." "We welcome you to Kalakuta Republic." "We have fun here in Kalakuta Republic." "We have our brothers and sisters here." "Kalakuta Republic, his installation, was in a downturn part of town." "It was a yellow house with two floors surrounded by barbed wire." "Thank you, my brothers and sisters." "We are in Kalakuta Republic." "We will do everything to be happy." "Everyone wants to be happy." "In the area where he bodde hjälpte he many people who had become criminals otherwise." "They had been terrible criminals, but he helped them." "He made them musicians, electricians and plumbers." "They took care of the collective and was well paid." "Fela hired hundreds of people he did not even have." "Fela was like that." "We talked half the night." "He showed us many books." "We read Kwame Nkrumah's books." "Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X." "We read "Stolen Legacy"." "Our Bible was' Black Man of the Nile "." "They revealed African history that they learned in Africa." "Unlike Intellectual talking about people" "But do not live in the ghetto Fela lived in the ghetto." "With the people." "I could relate to Fela's opinions and his lifestyle." "He had a scandalous lifestyle." "They lived so freely in their collective, they called Kalakuta." "I have never felt as free I felt there." "First and foremost, you should know that it was illegal." "The civil war had led to fears for secession from the country." "Then there came a half naked musicians which was surrounded by strange Shapes" "As seceded from Nigeria." "It was only a small facility surrounded by taggtråd- but he called it a country." "My grandmother, Fela's mother ..." "Fela's lifestyle began to scare her." ""He was freaking out."" "Grandmother was often there." "She knew Fela smoked." "They were close." "My mother was the first woman who drove in Nigeria." "The first African woman in China." "Nkrumah's advisors." "Mao Zedong comrade." "Leaders of women's movement!" "The nation's mother." "She was brave and was a good teacher." "It did not come from nowhere." "His grandfather, his mother ..." "They challenged the authority." "He has been a great inspiration." "We must get it right." "His mother's story inspired me." "It begins ..." "We have a protest over here." "This leads to a musician." "He becomes interested in politics." "Three weeks after I met Fela ..." "The police?" "... did the police raid against Kalakuta." "50 policemen at my door." "They were looking for grass." "Just A handful grass." "Before that, they let him be, for he came from a prominent family." "Come in!" "Come in, damn cops!" "When police arrived, he was angry." "He said: "Well, it's a battle."" "He became more aggressive." ""Alagbon Close" was his first song who attacked the government." "It was the first song." "It was spiritual for me When I painted the picture." ""Fela has defeated the police."" "When I showed Fela picture He said: "Wow!"" "It was the beginning the dynasty skivomslagens." "I shared Fela's Pan-Africanism, so I knew what he meant." "My art complemented Fela's music." "This was the original Kalakuta." "When Err occur on Shrine gick he along this road." "We are going the same way now." "He went in the middle of the street." "The cars just stopped." "He raised his fists, first right Left, and strutted forward." "And people started chanting." "In cars and on the sidewalk." ""Fela!" "Fela!" "Fela!"" "He was surrounded by a crowd when he went into the Shrine." "And so he started to occur." "Fela had become very rich." "He was an icon." "Everyone wanted to meet with Fela." "In 1970 it was about me." "I was the "American Negress"." "But 1976 was not intimately anymore." "He said: "Will you be with me?"" ""I have 10 women here." "You can be in my entourage. "" "And I did not want." "He was surrounded by a lot humans. 200-250 people." "He did not favor his family of someone else." "He gave everyone something, and we had to wait." "He showed us the love last." "Frankly, my memories of him from my childhood ..." "Our lives were different." "We called him dad." "He did not let us do it." "We must call him to Fela." "Mom was sick all the time." "He had a lot of girlfriends." "Now I understand why she was sick and had stomach ulcers." "When we were around 10 he bought an apartment for her." "When my mother had moved there   Fela had no limits." "Okay, rest." "Rest." "Good." "It is good." "I mean ... "I'm afraid for this? "Silence, please." "It was hard, because we wanted to be with authentic Fela synpunkter to substances that are sensitive now." "The women." "According to the African Women and men have different responsibilities." "Women who can participate can participate." "Women who think they can compete the men can compete against men." "But women must know their place in society." "As soon as you are at home, whether you are the president or inte can man jacket one." "I want that we will exceed this." "So ..." "That's what I'm worried about." " You can do it." "We are in Manhattan now, and you should not say things like this." "We live in a time when you do not say things like that about women." "However Err does, for he is an authentic African." "Just say it straight out." "We tried to figure out how far we could go." "He behaved like this with girls every evening." "Now we are trying to represent him;" "but I do not know how." "Or I know it, but I'm afraid to do it." "Grabbing a woman like this ... "She to know that she'll be fucked. "" "We tried to portray an offensive bastard who was charming." "I'm not an easy man." "Sometimes I'm very tough on them." "But they are not like the Nigerian the press says. "Misguided girls."" ""Underage prostitutes." These women are queens." "They are my family." "And soon they will bear my name." " I'll marry you all!" "He told us to say to mom that he would marry signal" "and she should come to the wedding." "She said: "If he is not a coward, why He sends his chickens ... "" "FELA marries" "That was exciting." ""27." "We will get a lot of brothers and sisters. "We were excited." "He was still married to the mother, and she did not agree to this." "So she stayed home." "The press was there." "And the 27 queens." "And he married them." "He was already with them." "She asked why he must marry them." "She did not understand it." "I married them, for I want it should be meaningful." "I want to have a meaningful life." "According to tradition, can I marry 27 women." "I follow the traditional law." "Yorubafolkets law." "He said that it was an African lifestyle." "But our tradition has strict rules for polygamy." "You can not just take a woman." "Male must negotiate with her family." "With polygamy, you can do it two, three, four times." "You have to give the family a dowry." "There is a very strict system." "It's not like Fela did." "Singing music" "As young girls like, and so do to them a part of your family." "It is quite another thing." "I was friends with most of them." "I was curious, so I knew who were his favorites." "I knew who went to his room two or three times a week." "Fela room was private." "When the door was locked he usually six." "Err had a diagram of his bedroom door Wives checked." "Fela shouted: "Get ready." Then it was your turn." "The other girls did not that they should go there." "Fela sat waiting in his room, and the other stood in the way of." "I remember the first time I stayed with Fela." "That I'll never forget." "There were 15 women there." "He talked to one of them, but she went to the toilet." "Then sat another one there, and he talked to her." "It went on like this until he chose who he wanted to be the night." "After that freaked everyone out." "15 women fought with each other." "And amid it all came Seun and Motun, the sun was up now" "Go out of their rooms in their school uniforms." "Amidst the chaos children must be taken to school." "It was then I realized, "Wow." "He has it like this every night. "" "At that time it was Nigeria ..." "We do not know, but you said 80 million." "Nigeria was a giant and was worried to decompose." "It was planned coup in Kaduna." "The Government was labile." "Mohammed had been shot and Obasanjo had taken over." "But you were always afraid for problems in the military." "There were no coups in Nigeria, but the military ruled the country." "People were very afraid." "It had with the military to do all the time." "Our lives in their hands." "They saw the military everywhere." "When we were there they launched "Operation Go Slow '." ""Go Slow" was a euphemism the traffic jam." "They had problems with traffic." "They got so much money thanks oljan that the elite could afford to buy a lot of cars." "Lagos a lot of small islands around the laguner so they had no infrastructure." "The traffic took an eternity." "So they placed the military at major intersections." "If a driver was in the way they stopped the car and whipped him." "They wondered who they were." ""They will not protect us?"" "But they beat the crap out of one." "There was not much freedom, and people knew of the press." "And criticizing the military." "It happens in prisons Nigeria's Nazism." "I saw when they whipped boys at eight o'clock in the morning." "And it was not a penalty." "They did it because they liked it." "If you look at what Fela meant for people in Lagos ..." "On Fridays, they looked forward going to the Shrine." "They wanted to hear his inspiring låttexter and comments on the situation in the country." "Dad was assassinated When I was 12-13 years." "And now told this man he wanted to fight for the people." "I was stuck. "He is my hero."" "When the boys will ..." "Fela was a problem for them." "He mentioned them by name." "They were so corrupt." "It was tense between him and the government." "The leader Obasanjo came from the same city that Fela." "The families knew each other and was outstanding." "Particularly Fela." "They were rivals in a sense." "You're talking about black power." "I'll show you real power." "Thing with Fela plant Kalakuta ..." "Nearby the low Abalti Barracks, a military barrack." "The situation was tense, because Fela was as a mob boss at the time." "He controlled the area." "And his enemy, the army was nearby." "Look at this knife." "We cut your face." "These shards of glass in your ..." "Army leaders disagree with Fela" "Err, the black people fighter 619 01:01:50,300 -- 01:01:57,500 It was tense." "According to Tony Allen it was like a war zone from 1974 to 1977." "When the government reacted, he said:" ""One should not give up."" ""One should not give up only to be turned down. "" "He said: "No, no." "You should not giving up at all." "You have to..."" "That was his philosophy." "San was Fela." "Maybe it's just a game." "I want the overthrow of the government, and they lock me in." "I have been in court 200 times, but I'm fighting against." "As Muhammad Ali." "Waiting." "Viewing." "In the hope of a chance!" "My turn." "How should I take revenge on those ... zombies?" "Fela attacked the military with a song while I was there. "Zombie."" "Zombie." "Fela talking about zombies. "Zombies do not go until you tell them. "" "Zombies do not stop until you tell it to." ""What do zombies out?"" "Zombies do not intend to." "One day improvised Sahr." "He said: "Zombie." "Zombie!"" "Zombie!" "What he quoted?" "Horror Movies." "Who makes horror movies?" "To do them in this country." "But zombies are a tradition in voodoo culture." "It is in their consciousness, but we want to emphasize that." "Marschera Forward." "They have the time ..." "Marschera!" "I do not know what you mean." "You should." "It is 1900s." "How marching man." "So marching man." "High." "Marching." "The soldiers in the oppressing regimerna tillhör same camp Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin." "When we children saw the album cover started our hearts throb." ""Fela!" "What is this?"" ""I knew it would cause problems." "Everyone knew that. "" "You can not do that." "And the father said:" ""Yes, this causes problems." "They are playing with fire, but it ignores he." "He held his saxophone like a rifle and marched on stage." "They did not. "If we run with them people are not afraid of them. "" "The song became an instant hit." "When drove around Lagos you heard it in the small shops." "Although the radio stations not allowed to play it." ""Zombie" was a hit, but a very small one." ""Have you heard 'Zombie'?" They knew not who was working for the SSS." ""There are things we should talk."" ""Marching here and now." Fela did that." ""Zombie" was the flame that ignited the propellant." "It was Friday, February 18, 1977." "Nina and I ate dinner when there was a knock on the door." "It was an errand boy with a message from him." "It said: "Come on." "Hurry." "Fela."" "I came home from school and saw the soldiers marching." ""Wow." "They're going to Dad's house."" "The house shakes now." "The generators now burning." "I smell the tear gas." "The first soldier climb over the wall." "1000 soldiers surrounded the house, and it attracted a crowd." "Some 60 000 people looked on." "People stood on the road." "The cars stopped." "It was a huge traffic jam." "The fence was electrified, so they have to turn off the electricity in the area." "Then they could start to enter." "But it did not go fast." "It took them three hours." "When I got there, I saw flames that rose high into the sky." "People ran back and forth, and the soldiers beat the crap out of them." "Soldiers!" "They were everywhere." "And they were haughty." "It was dark everywhere." "And so we saw that the house had burned down." "Mom started screaming:" ""They've killed him!"" "Sorry." "She started screaming:" ""They've killed him!"" "My uncle said:" ""Femi, ducking so that they do not see you."" "They took people out of the house." "The girls were naked and bloody." "17:39." "They stripped me." "They pulled in my genitals until they bled." "At the hospital they took a bottle and a knife out of me." "17.45." "They pulled up Funmilayo the stairs." "No!" "17:47." "They throw her out the window upstairs." "We found them around three days later." "We found Fela's mother first." "She was at the military hospital in Yaba." "Fela was at the military hospital in Lagos." "They had broken bones." "All had been severely beaten." "It was the worst I've ever seen." "Fela HOUSE burned down" ""Said Funmilayo that political life is hard. "" "Anything could happen when dealing with politics." "Bad things." "She probably was not surprised when they threw her out the window." "She died a year after the house burned down." "Fela never got over her death." "Now the mother died because of them!" "He was always brave outwardly." "People did not see how he was private." "When he took leave of his mother Mom stood beside him." "She saw he had tears in his eyes." "His whole body shook." "It was a hard blow for him, she gave him moral support." "And ideological support." "She was his role model when it came to political activism." "Many consider he lost his footing after that." "Mom ..." "Were you afraid at that moment?" "When they took hold of you, you took to the window and kept you there." "Bönbad them to let you live?" "He felt guilty because he believed that she died because of him." "But the guilt was a very small Some of his feelings for her." "Rather, it was love." "He continued to try to link up to her after her death." "It was his only weakness." "Esu ... junction with the security guards ..." "Give me your permission to talk to the mother." "Shango ..." "Heaven thunderous King ..." "My journey for me through your kingdom." "That was how he talked to his mother." "He talked about his conversations with spirits for hours." "One of his wives, Sewaa, come from Ghana." "She receives his mother's spirit." "Faced Sewaa becomes Fela as a child." "He says: "Mom!" "Mom!" "Can I do this?" "Or like this? "" "Changed Err after his mother died?" "Modified?" "No." "All amplified compared to before." "He got really angry." "No politics in Africa ..." "Only two people have gone on street and followed in the footsteps of people." "Nkrumah and mother." "What are you talking about?" "The song "Coffin for Head of State" says rebuilding" "when his mother's symbolic coffin was transferred to General Obasanjo." "Fela held him responsible for the raid which led to her death." "We will march past Military barracks." "We will place it at his door." "We will show the world what a true leaders look like." "A true head of state!" "Funmilayo President!" "He told me he would take the coffin to the barracks." "I suspected something was amiss." "Is Fela crazy?" "Was mad with me!" "I prayed to God. "Let him forget it. "Then I fell asleep." "Then touched somebody at me. "Fela shouts on you." "Fela calling you! "" ""I will not wake up." "If we go there teaches we are all dead men. "" ""What do you mean you took your mother's coffin to the right house? "" "And they knew they would get a beating." "There they knew." "And they beat them and whipped them." ""They'll shoot us." "He just causes problems all the time. "" "Remember that their house had burned down." "One of his cousins had stolen his money." "He owed the bank thousands naira." "He was broke." "I caused no problems." "I'm just Tony Allen." "I just wanted to play the drums." "Enjoy the music." "But I spoke to the rest of bandet and we had not been paid for several months." "The concert in Berlin was important to him." "The festival's organizers paid a six-figure sum" "to get there Fela and Africa '70." "If you take all of who worked with him ..." "Musicians, dancers, singers, organizers ..." "We were 28 of them. 28 people." "But we were 71 people when we went on tour. 71 people." "It was late for the original Africa '70." "They had been through a lot but was not enough betalt so many of them saw this as their last performance." "They were not satisfied." "Half the band ended in Berlin." "Tony Allen left the band there." "I said, "From today I am not in Africa '70 anymore. "" ""Now it's over." "Over."" "And so was formed Egypt '80." "When Egypt '80 formed we began youngsters arrive." "We were like a reserved bunch." "Play the fucking drums." "It was a new era for afrobeat." "When we formed the Egypt '80 music became more ..." "Egypt '80 was very disciplined." "Africa '70's ​​music was more circular." "It was more ... it was funkier." "But Egypt '80 was more ..." ""We fight." "We have a mission."" "Music as a weapon." "He was different on stage." "Everyone knew that one does not did commit a blunder on stage." "If you did that got you fired." "He never misses anything." "He looks at one." "You get a very fast reaction at the scene." "When he turns around gets all scared." ""What have I done?"" "Fela was demanding." "He wanted that everything would be perfect." "The music, the dancing and choreography must be perfect." "Fela toured for the money, to get new tjejer and to spread their message." "He was convinced that he could spread a budskap a strong message, about Africa." "As the artist has represented the music resent one's thoughts on the environment." "In Africa, the music stand Revolution, not entertainment." "I'll sing." "I see today's Africans ..." "What we do ..." "We suffer and we smile." "All Africans smiles." "We smile because we are good people." "But one should not smile under bad circumstances." "That would make everything worse." "It is like slavery." "So I wrote a song called "Suffering and Smiling"." "We do not know what happened." "We do not know what Fela should have done." "But they come here and makes all cursed." "1981, I was arrested with him." "They beat him real bad." "He was bleeding from the head, and he was in pain." "Then I realized that this was what his life was." "Do you want to see the police beating people?" "I'll show you that." "You must see this." "Look." "Look." "Here." "On the whole my body." "Anywhere." "They beat the shit out of me." "But I did not die, for my name Anikulapo." "I have death in my bag." "I can not die." "They can not kill me." "One two three four." "Ordinary people would not be able to write songs in the läget" "But resistance gave his creative fire fuel." "He was so brave." "I just:" ""Can I ever be so brave?"" "I do not know where he got the courage from." "He told the soldier:" ""You bastard!" "Shoot me, I said!"" "Everyone would say:" ""We will die." "We are going to die."" "But Fela said:" ""Fuck you!" "Fuck you!"" "I want to clarify something ..." "If they think I will förändras or compromise with my attitude, my lifestyle" "or my political goals ..." "They make me stronger." "I am much stronger now." "1985 ..." "In the morning ... next month ..." "I will be president." "He had delusions of grandeur." "He wanted to be president." "He wanted me to be His information minister." "I said, 'Information Minister? "" "An honest, progressive government who knows what it's doing." "No diplomacy." "No compromises." "No Marxism, Leninism or capitalism." "Afrikanism." "He had no clear political ideology." "It was instinctively." "Either he liked something or not." "The conductors ... ..." "Banks The stupid bastards colonialism." "Everything was about the power of Fela." "He thought that the people, ordinary Nigerians, should have power." "They should not be treated as game pieces." "Peace is not." "I have talked of Pan-Africanism long." "Remember to care so much," "that they risk becoming beaten, stabbed or arrested." "He was great, for he did not leave Nigeria." "He had been able to stay in Paris or New York." ""No, I'll stay here and messing with you. "He was nuts." "He had not been able to go through all he was to renovate" "If he did not love the people and wanted to improve their lives." "And Was crazy." "Yes but..." "For me, the mystery of his madness." "He loved the people." "Or a picture of the people." "But what captivates me is his madness." "All right." "Monster." "Monster." "And ..." "You Die by the sound of their screams." "All right." "One more time." "Fela was a sacred monster." "If you pat a sacred monster bites that of one's hand." "A fearless, poor, frightening and often beautiful varelse" "As go between the gods and this world." "This world is governed by higher forces." "People need to realize that." "You do it by getting knowledge even if the culture and even people." "Not by Christianity or Islam." "It removes us from our roots." "I did not come back until 1981 When Fela asked me to come to Paris." "When I got there I noticed that Fela had changed." "My life has changed." "I was in a trance." "I see the spiritual things now." "Fela was interested of Egyptology and spirits." "It was because he mourned the loss of his mother." "When it rained, he saw it as a message from his mother." "It was so important for him to have contact with her." "When one experiences so much tragedi förändras even approach." "They focus more in the other world." "His life was not a link to verkligheten without it was about the spirits." "A global view of the world." "He began to spend time with a man called the professor Hindu." "I want to introduce my spiritual instructor." "My brother." "Professor Hindu." "Professor Hindu was a magician from Ghana." "Fela was fascinated by him and had with him everywhere." "The past three years have been Fela started focus on African spiritualism." "He brings a guru" "As he claims has given him miraculous powers." "My spiritual life has told me that I will be at least 130 years." "Since then, my skin become smoother." "My wrinkles disappear." "I get more and more energy and fucking more." "Fela said some incredible things if its guru force." "Without Africa spiritual essence Africa can not develop." "If things like this prank is the basis for Africa's culture you will have to decide themselves." "Fela asked me to organize an event Professor Hindu." "My favorite club Country Club Low in Belsize Park in North West London." "So we were there." "We went in, and there were cameras where." "There were around 200 people there." "Professor Hindus took to the stage with a stone and a large knife." "He sharpened knife." "When it was time sat his assistant Emmanuel down." "He took out a large knife." "As a butcher knife." "He lifted his head and ..." "He cut his throat." "It spurted blood everywhere." "Blood sprayed." "The cameraman looked away." "They all shouted." "Then they ran out with him." "The crowd also ran out." "De la body in the grave and filled it with soil." "I was not even trying understand what they did. "He'll die!"" "Fela said: "We come here again Sunday, so you will see Africa's power. "" ""He will be alive again."" "I did not like it." "I said:" ""Professor, that's cold."" "He laughed and said:" ""Do not worry."" "I did not know what would happen on Sunday. "We'll be arrested."" "The crowd came back." "The professor was wearing swimming trunks." "He stamped his feet and mumbled." "Suddenly a hand from the ground." "Everybody started digging." "I pulled up him." "His hands were warm." "I do not know how he did it." "I think the Hindu was a scam." "He was a scam." "Fela was looking for something spiritual and believed in him." "I saw many people who tried to exploit him." "This is Robert Steffens." "We talk to the star the "Hollywood Bowl Show"." "Fela." "Welcome to KCRW." "Hello." "Everyone here is happy that you are here." "Let me ask you something about Professor Hindu." "He accompanies you here?" "Yes absolutely." "He is incredible." "Messengers that he has been sent here to change the world." "He was on his way to the US to be with the "Hollywood Bowl"." "Fela was wearing a coat when he traveled." "Professor Hindu stuffed money in his cloak." ""Do not worry." "I will make them invisible. "" "Fela was arrested when he traveled to the US with his band." "He was arrested for trying to bring out foreign currency out of the country." "Last week he was sentenced to five years in prison in Nigeria." "The fact that he was sentenced to five years in prison for something Boolean true" "visade that they could do whatever they wanted." "Hindus were left When Fela went to jail." "All those who had believed in him beat the crap out of him." "They attacked him, and he went back to Ghana." "How feel Err?" "Not So well, physically." "He is locked in a small room with 100 people." "You can perform with his health." "I can say that it   wounded him deeply." "It was not a joke anymore." "I greeted him in the prison in northern Nigeria." "I can say that ..." "US senators and French Ministers wrote to him." "Amnesty International launched a campaign to draw attention to his situation." "He served 1.5 years of the sentence." "The judge greeted him," "and recognized that the military had pressured him." "History leaked." "Referee, fired, and Fela was released." "Fela from Nigeria is here with us tonight." "Welcome him!" "Celebrate Fela is free!" "Err is free." "When he was released in 1986, he was almost equally acclaimed as Nelson Mandela" "As African political opponents." "And now you have begun a world tour." "How do you keep up with it?" "It is natural." "Is it?" "You do not influenced by to be in prison?" "Well, it is." "Yes." "It affected my mind." "It was a dark period for him." "But his music jumped to the next level." "It jumped several levels." "He got probably search himself as composer" "to find their source of power." "For the 80's he started creating deep compositions." "As the "Teacher Do not Teach Me Nonsense "and" Beast of no Nation "." "They are much more complicated than Africa '70's ​​tunes." "He called it not for afrobeat, but for the classic African music." "Say: "Yes!" "Yes!"" "Now you understand." "To play African music must start with a beautiful rhythm." "Next, add to the drums." "Here we go." "Towards the end of life Fela you can see the rhythm he was looking for." "It should be like a machine." "And it does not add anything." "It neither removes or adds something." "It just stays there." "It's like a trance." "The songs are long and feel spiritual." "He was spiritual at the time." "And they are political." "He was a genius in terms of rhythm and songs." "His music was just deeper and deeper in his career." "I went to the US and met all the major record companies." "On Fela's behalf." "They asked a question I could not answer." ""Which three minutes of the 28 I will play on the radio? "" "In one of the last discussions we had before dogma" "frågade I why his songs were so long." "The songs was 30 minutes." "He laughed and asked if I had heard Beethoven and Bach." ""Is their songs short?" "No."" ""They played what they felt." "What you hear is what I feel. "" "He told Lemi and me:" ""Whatever you do, do it properly."" ""Do it properly and not to make money. "" ""If they do not appreciate a while live, they take you when you're dead. "" "And it was like a prophecy." "That was what happened when he died." "Yes ... "And then I died."" ""A horrible and shameful death"   "a disease we refuse to talk about today. "" "Who refuses to talk about it?" "Afrikaner." "AIDS." "When he was released from prison had He relations with many women." ""Like Funmilayo I die not."" "I am..." "It is awful that he had unprotected sex." ""I see them bring me along the street in chains. "" "Fela was the face of AIDS, and I got angry on his behalf." "He should not be used in that way." "I do not want to be used that way." "Is the meaning of my life AIDS?" "The creativity of living with death" "I was relieved when we decided to quit before then." "I'm not going to be wise after the event." "We made that decision." "My beloved brother has died of AIDS." "His brother announce it." "Nobody wanted to do it because of the shame surrounding HIV and AIDS." "We pretend that AIDS does not exist in this country." "You risk everybody dying of AIDS." "There should know." "It is ironic, for his two brothers were doctors." "And besides organized Koye and Femi Soyinka" "Nigerias Campaign against HIV." "Fela was alive enough in denial." "In an interview, he said he did not could get könssjukdomar because he's not used six errors." "For me, sex is not just sex." "Sex gives me strength." "One can get spiritual effect of to have sex." "It is important." "Spirituell Force?" "Yes." "He exposed people to danger." "I agree with that." "But he did not believe in the disease." "Fela did not in Western medicine." "He was looking for the African source even if the error was" "for it was the black source." "European Medicine has a low spiritual wavelength." "Traditional African medicine has a high spiritual wavelength." "When he started to get sores and stuff   he said he ömsade skin." "Like a snake." "He took to the stage in white pants and began to bleed." "Someone gave him new clothes, and he said: "Why?"" "He said that his body underwent a spiritual change." "I was on tour, and my sister called and asked me to come home." "She said that Fela was dying." ""I will as soon as I can."" "We went to Kala Kuta, and he lay there." "He was too weak to prevent them from taking him to the hospital." "It was the last time I saw him." "When they took him out of the house." "We in the family did not that people loved him anymore." "We did not that people respected him anymore." "So my sister and I said:" ""He is still loved."" "I said we should take him to arenan for a million people would come to the funeral." "We put down his body at half past seven and waited." "People drove with us." ""Where are all the people?"" ""Wait." "It is seven o'clock." "Where is everybody?"" "At nine o'clock, people started getting there." "Around 100 people." "And it was a great venue." ""You told me a million." 10 000. 11 000. 15 000." "We began to imagine what would happen." "20 000. 40 000. 50 000." "And so the people!" "When the gates opened, people became like mad." "They wanted to see their hero." "Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died last week." "He was a legend in Nigeria." "He dared to challenge authority and was loved." "I had never seen anything like this before." "He lay in a glass coffin and held a big joint." "People walked past the coffin to show his respect." "I knew he was a star, but I did not." "I was only 14 when he died." "When he died, and CNN, BBC and a million people came dit insåg I he was an important person." "When the clock was two we wondered how we would get out." "People stood in line at the square to get in." "Those in charge of the funeral said we have to sneak out." ""When I give a signal we make it in the car and get out. "" "So when he gave the signal We lifted the coffin and stuck." "The people in the arena stopped us right before we came out. "Femi, stop!"" "The boys stood in front of the hearse and said: "You can not go this way."" ""Give Fela a proper burial."" "It took seven hours." "Normally it would have taken 30 minutes." "We succeeded with what we wanted to do." "We caused chaos in Lagos." "It was magical." "I saw people on the Cordura Road and began to cry." "I was so confused." "I held a speech, but I do not remember what I said." "People shouted, "Seun!" "Seun!" "You have to say something."" "Fela was alive for all." "It is his name means." "Fela" " Forever live Africa." "He gave the word "Fela" meaning." "Forever live Africa." "And it has changed "Forever live afrobeat"." "I did not go back to Nigeria in 2006." "I did not go to the funeral or something Boolean true because I remember Fela as he was." "Everything came back, but one thing ..." "One thing I will remember forever is when Fela combed hair." "I loved to watch when he combed the hair." "It really caught it he was." "But what I remember most is his eyes." "The mixture of pain and pleasure." "The mixture of compassion and rage." "At the same time." "I'll probably say it, otherwise you censor it. "The bastard."" ""The bastard." "The bastard." He called as many people for it." "He said it in a special way." "Sometimes he was silent and smoked." "They wondered what he was thinking." ""Thinking he was on what he should get up to next? "" "I will never forget him." "Not a chance." "We did stuff that no one else has done." "We did stuff that no one else had tested." "He was my friend until the end." "Fela was important to me." "He influenced my way of being." "He made me a proud African." "He helped many of us to develop as Africans." "It has taken 30-40 years for the world to catch up with him." "He was so far ahead of its time." "Dylan caught something for that generation." "Fela attracted the continent." "And he does today." "My name Fela Anikulapo-Kuti." "I have death in my bag." "No mortal man can kill me." "We will not go away." "We use music as a weapon and intend to stay here." "Tomorrow and the day after." "And forever." "The show is deep." "Inside me." "Once the show gets under way   and they really running on ..." "Everybody on stage ..." "So there." "People invest everything they have." "Music is a weapon." "Music is the future weapon." "Good evening, everybody." "Welcome to Africa Shrine." "This is a historic day New Africa Shrine for Fela has come home." "Thanks so much for us must come to Lagos." "To Shrine." "It means more to us than you can imagine." "Many were inspired tonight." "They were fascinated." "They were shocked." ""Is that Fela?" "There is an actor. "" "They underwent a change and wanted more." "Say: "Yes!" "Yes!"" "I said I do not feel alone anymore." "I often wonder: "What is this?"" "But the play revived me."