Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Coffin For Head Of State (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Can't You Hear Me Knocking

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Fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Coffin For Head Of State (Vinyl) Format:Vinyl LP Can't You Hear Me KnockingIn 1977, the government of Nigeria had enough of Fela Kuti and decided to take evasive action on his walled in residence that he called the Kalakuta Republic (Fela declared it a separate state). Over a thousand soldiers descended on the compound and savagely beat the residents. Fela himself escaped death (but not incarceration), but his activist mother was thrown through a window and broke her hip causing an injury that would take her life within that