GREAT HITS OF OLD....Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Baba Afrika 70)
- I listen to this music with utmost nostalgia and tears in my eyes, because I saw it all with my korokoro eyes as it all happened.
- On dat fateful day I was on my way to school...my normal route MOSHALASI, where we often stopped to watch Fela's girls dressed skimpily, swimming outside his house, surrounded by barbed wire fence. Usually a delight.
- But dis particular day was NOT FUNNY.
- My biggest pain was when Fela's mother was thrown out down the decking.
- Mennnnn Soldiers BAD ooooo. Before u knew what was happening dem don start dey rape d women, dey burn down d damn place....and ended up siting a pry school on the demolished site. I wonder if they even gave the Ransome Kuti family any compensations. Nawa for dis 3rd world people oooo!!! even animals nogo do wettin my eyes see on dat day.....
- All bcos una no like wettin d guy dey tok...TRUTH IS BITTER., AND OUR GOVERNMENTS TOO DEY CHEAT DEM PEOPLE.
- As an adult, I am still TRAUMATIZED by what i saw on dat day. It made me feel a sense of insecurity in my own country, which I still feel till TODAY.
- SOLDIERS....walahi una no good....those were the days when soldier go stop u and commandeer your car for road. If u tok dem go decorate u with SLAPS....all the aftermath of a bitter long drawn Civil War in Nigeria....KAI.
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