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Album
Coffin For Head Of State
By Fela Kuti
Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2021
Track listing: Coffin For Head Of State.
Article: Liner Notes
Fela Kuti: Coffin For Head Of State
by Chris May
From the late 1970s onward, Fela's lyrics became longer, more complex and ever more confrontational. Coffin For Head Of State, first released on Kalakuta in 1981, is an outstanding example. It is one of several albums on which Fela responded to the Nigerian army's destruction of his Kalakuta Republic compound on 18 February 1977, and focuses ...
