Name: Beasts Of No Nation
Brand: Fela Kuti and Afrika 70

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

kfr2043-1

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

[r7629024]

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-01-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0720841205616

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Fela Kuti and Afrika 70

Genre GB

African

Label GB

Knitting Factory

After helping Fela Anikulapo Kuti with 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense', Wally Badarou was back in the producer's chair for this effort, which was political in the extreme. That is to say, Kuti was in an extremely confrontational mood. The cover pictures former South African president PW Botha, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan as horned vampires with blood dripping from their mouths. The music is more of the same, the grooves are typically sinuous, but the lyrics are venom-filled with Kuti referring to the aforementioned trio as 'animals wan dash our human rights.' After a few so-so records in the early '80s, 'Beasts of No Nation' was a strong (at times stunning) return to form for Kuti and signaled that his political beliefs kept him from becoming musically lazy.

Beasts Of No Nation

Music GB