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    Fela Kuti Why Black Man They Suffer

    Knitting Factory Records
    • Fela Kuti – Why Black Man Dey Suffer
    • Fela Kuti – Ikoyi Mentality vs Mushin Mentality
    • 1. Why Black Man Dey Suffer
    • 2. Ikoyi Mentality vs Mushin Mentality

    ‘Why Black Man Dey Suffer’, recorded in 1971, was originally deemed too controversial for release by EMI, his label at the time. Having recently been schooled in the American black power movement and having taken on a new Pan-African worldview, this album served as one of Fela’s first musical soapboxes on which he challenged the colonial injustices and corruption of the ruling elites of his time.

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    Fela KutiThe Best Of The Black PresidentKnitting Factory Records
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      • 4×LP Box Set KFR1001-8£79.99
        *Ludo Board included!
        *Pressed on opaque 'Red, Green, Blue & Yellow' coloured vinyl.
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      Fela KutiIkoyi BlindnessKnitting Factory Records
      Fela used the cover of ‘Ikoyi Blindness’ to announce his change of middle name from Ransome, which he now considered a slave name, to Anikulapo, which...
      • – Ikoyi Blindness
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      Fela KutiOriginal SufferheadKnitting Factory Records
      This edition of ‘Original Sufferhead’ is a major event. With the release of ‘Box Set #5’, and now on this reissue, the title track of this magnificent...
      • – Original Sufferhead
      • – Power Show
      • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2039-3£20.99
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      Fela KutiO.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake)Knitting Factory Records
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        • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2020-3£20.99
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        Fela KutiNoise For Vendor MouthKnitting Factory Records
        The Nigerian establishment labelled Kalakuta Republic inhabitants as ‘hooligans’, ‘hemp smokers’, etc. ‘Noise For Vendor Mouth’ is Fela’s...
        • – Noise For Vendor Mouth
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        • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2019-3£20.99
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        Fela KutiGentleman: 50th AnniversaryKnitting Factory Records
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            • – Open And Close
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                  Fela KutiRoforofo Fight (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory
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                    • – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
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                    • – Yellow Fever
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                    Other Releases on Knitting Factory Records

                    Fela KutiThe Best Of The Black PresidentKnitting Factory Records
                    The Best of the Black President is the 13 track guide to Fela Kuti’s massive and manifold creative career. Fela was a musician, arranger, producer, political...
                      • 4×LP Box Set KFR1001-8£79.99
                        *Ludo Board included!
                        *Pressed on opaque 'Red, Green, Blue & Yellow' coloured vinyl.
                        In stockAdd to Bag
                      Fela KutiIkoyi BlindnessKnitting Factory Records
                      Fela used the cover of ‘Ikoyi Blindness’ to announce his change of middle name from Ransome, which he now considered a slave name, to Anikulapo, which...
                      • – Ikoyi Blindness
                      • – Gba Mi Leti Ki N'Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)
                      Fela KutiOriginal SufferheadKnitting Factory Records
                      This edition of ‘Original Sufferhead’ is a major event. With the release of ‘Box Set #5’, and now on this reissue, the title track of this magnificent...
                      • – Original Sufferhead
                      • – Power Show
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                        In stockAdd to Bag
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                        Fela KutiKalakuta ShowKnitting Factory Records
                        The ‘Kalakuta Show’ album was Fela Kuti’s undaunted manner of extracting revenge on the military regime that attacked and brutalized him in 1974....
                        • – Kalakuta Show
                        • – Don't Make Garan Garan
                        • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2020-3£20.99
                          In stockAdd to Bag
                        Fela KutiNoise For Vendor MouthKnitting Factory Records
                        The Nigerian establishment labelled Kalakuta Republic inhabitants as ‘hooligans’, ‘hemp smokers’, etc. ‘Noise For Vendor Mouth’ is Fela’s...
                        • – Noise For Vendor Mouth
                        • – Mattress
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                          In stockAdd to Bag
                        Fela KutiGentleman: 50th AnniversaryKnitting Factory Records
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                          • New LP (Coloured Vinyl) KFR2009-8£23.00
                            Limited smoke coloured vinyl edition
                            In stockAdd to Bag
                          Fela KutiBoxset #5: Co-curated by Chris Martin & Femi KutiKnitting Factory Records
                          Knitting Factory Records release the next installment of long-awaited vinyl reissues from the Fela Kuti catalog. Box Set #5 was co-curated by Fela’s...
                            • 7×LP Box set (2.2kg) KFR4006-1£90.00
                              In stockAdd to Bag
                            Fela KutiOpen & CloseKnitting Factory Records
                            Reissue of Fela's highly sought-after 1971 album, 'Open & Close'! Super-funky Afrobeat featuring the incredible title track!
                            • – Open And Close
                            • – Suegbe And Pako
                            • – Gbagada Gbogodo
                            Fela KutiCoffin For Head Of StateKnitting Factory Records
                            Fela Kuti made some frantic albums in his career--ones that popped with his enthusiastic political disobedience and ones that roared with fury at the Nigerian...
                            • – Coffin For Head Of State part 1
                            Fela KutiJ.J.D (Johnny Just Drop!!) Live!! At Kalakuta RepublikKnitting Factory Records
                            Originally released in 1977, ‘Johnny Just Drop (J.J.D.)’ features Fela lampooning Nigeria’s ‘been-tos’, people who had been to Europe or America...
                              • LP + Download Code KFR2026-1£20.99
                                In stockAdd to Bag
                              Fela KutiUnderground SystemKnitting Factory Records
                              Reissue of one of Fela's later recordings, comprised of two extended tracks, the title cut and the classic, 'Pansa Pansa'.
                              • – Underground System
                              • – Pansa Pansa
                              Fela KutiAfrodisiacKnitting Factory Records
                              1973 Nigerian afro beat funk at it's best from the master - Fela Kuti 
                              • – Alu Jon Jonki Jon
                              • – Eko Ile
                              Fela KutiFela's London SceneKnitting Factory Records
                              Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1971. Essential Fela Kuti, featuring Tony Allen on drums!
                              • – J'Ehin J'Ehin
                              • – Who're You?
                              • – Buy Africa
                              Fela KutiI.T.T.Knitting Factory Records
                              'International Thief Thief' classic Fela from 1979
                                Fela KutiEverything Scatter (2015 Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
                                Another killer gem from the undisputed 'King Of Afrobeat' Fela Kuti! Originally released in 1975. Expect nothing less than perfection. Sweet locked-in...
                                • – Everything Scatter
                                • – Who No Know Go How
                                Fela KutiNa PoiKnitting Factory Records
                                Hypnotic afrobeat bullet from 1972 - recorded in Lagos. Sprited percussion, tight horns, and pure funk! As with most of the great man's albums, this is...
                                • – na poi (part 1)
                                • – na poi (part 2)
                                • – you no go die...unless
                                Fela KutiSorrow Tears & Blood (2014 Vinyl Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
                                Originally released in 1977, Fela and Afrika 70 rise to their peak with rowsing, radical stuff as espoused by 'Colonial Mentality'.
                                  Fela KutiTeacher Don't Teach Me NonsenseKnitting Factory Records
                                  In 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense', Fela explains the role of the teacher in any society with the concept that all the things we consider to be problems...
                                  • – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense
                                  Fela KutiHe Miss Road (2014 Vinyl Reissue)Knitting Factory Records
                                  He Miss Road', also 1975, was produced by Ginger Baker. A deep and darker shade of afro-beat that is one of Fela's best.
                                  • – He Miss Road
                                  • – Monday Morning In Lagos
                                  • – It's No Possible
                                  Fela KutiFela With Ginger Baker Live!Knitting Factory Records
                                  'Let's Start' - Seriously killer tune! and loads more. It's hard to go wrong with Fela Kuti's work from the 1970s, and LIVE!, which features the Afrobeat...
                                  • – Let's Start
                                  Fela KutiYellow FeverKnitting Factory Records
                                  Yellow Fever’ was originally released in 1976, during Fela’s extraordinarily prolific 1975-77 purple period, when he released 24 albums in Nigeria...
                                  • – Yellow Fever
                                  • – Na Poi ‘75

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