Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70's 1976 release Zombie A Re-issue from Knitting Factory Records
The fury stirred up among the Nigerian police and military by Fela’s confrontational
Alagbon Close (1974) and Kalakuta Show (1976), and the beatings and harassments
 Fela and Africa 70 suffered as a consequence, were as nothing compared to the reprisals
 following 1976’s Zombie. Within months of its release, a brutal army attack left Fela’s
 Kalakuta Republic compound burnt to the ground and many of its residents, including
Fela, assaulted and seriously injured. On the title track, over an urgent, quick-march
 accompaniment from Afrika 70, Fela and the backup singers ridicule the mindset of
men in uniform. “Attention! Quick march! Slow march! Salute!” sings Fela, “Fall in! Fall
out! Fall down! Go and kill! Go and die! Go and quench!” Each phrase is followed
by the women singers’ taunting response, “Zombie!” Fela continues: “No brains,
no job, no sense joro jara jo; tell am to go kill joro jara jo; tell am to go quench joro jara
jo (meaning, “no brains, no job, no sense left right left; tell him to go kill left right left;
tell him to go die left right left.”) The army’s response was terrible... On 18 February,
1977, around 1,000 soldiers, most of them armed, swooped on Kalakuta. They cordoned
off the surrounding area, broke down the wire fence around the community’s buildings,
and battered their way into the central structure. Occupants were stripped and
barbarously abused: particularly unfortunate men had their testicles beaten with rifle
butts; particularly unfortunate women were raped (another had her nipples crushed
 between stones). Fela was badly beaten, sustaining a fractured skull and several broken
bones. His mother, then aged 77, was thrown out of a window, fracturing a leg and
suffering deep trauma. The army then set fire to the compound and prevented the
fire brigade reaching the area.The blaze gutted the premises, destroying six Afrika 70
vehicles, all Fela’s master tapes and band equipment, a four-track recording studio,
all the residents’ belongings and, for good measure, the free medical clinic run by
Fela’s brother, Dr Beko Ransome Kuti (who was also severely beaten in the attack). The
first journalists to arrive on the scene were assaulted by soldiers. Inquisitive passers-by
were similarly set upon. The army didn’t want any witnesses.

Side One is Zombie Side Two is Mr Follow Follow
Brand New SEALED LP from Knitting Factory Records courtesy of Kalakuta Sunrise 

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