Coffin For Head Of State - Fela Kuti (Vinyl)

This is a reissue vinyl LP of Coffin For Head of State by Fela Kuti. The album, made up of one track only, is among Fela's most courageous responses to the Nigerian army's destruction of Kalakuta on February 18, 1977. During the attack, Fela's mother, aged 78, a veteran of Nigeria's struggle for independence from British colonial rule and an early campaigner for Nigerian women's rights, was thrown out of an upstairs window, fracturing a leg. Fela believed that the assault led to his mother's death 14 months later. The audio has been restored and remastered from Fela's original Nigerian recordings. The artwork has been meticulously recreated from the original album artwork.

Label: Knitting Factory

Release year: 2019

Tracks:

1. Coffin for Head of State