Description
Kuti, Fela – Beasts Of No Nation (White Vinyl) (Vinyl)
Catalog # : LP-KFR-2043W
Artist : Kuti, Fela
UPC : 720841205630
Label : Knitting Factory Records
Street Date : 8/7/2017
Description
Limited Edition White Vinyl. Beasts Of No Nation, originally released in 1989, was an indictment of the corruption and repression in post-colonial Africa. The album, whose single track took up both sides of the vinyl LP, addressed a variety of targets, each of them, said Fela, guilty of enslaving Africans: the Nigerian regime, the South African apartheid regime of P.W. Botha, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher, America’s Ronald Reagan, and the ineffectual United Nations. In addition to being vilified in the lyrics, Botha, Thatcher and Reagan are among the political leaders portrayed as beasts and devils on the front sleeve.
