50TH Anniversary: Roforofo Fight
50TH Anniversary: Roforofo Fight . Vinyl - 2×LP, Limited Coloured - Ltd. Edition Yellow & Green Vinyl 2xLP
50TH Anniversary: Roforofo Fight . Vinyl - 2×LP, Limited Coloured - Ltd. Edition Yellow & Green Vinyl 2xLP

50TH Anniversary: Roforofo Fight

Artist

Fela Kuti

Label

Knitting Factory Records

Catalogue number

KFR2006

Release date

  • Vinyl, 2×LP, Limited Coloured
    Ltd. Edition Orange & Green Vinyl 2xLP
  • WAV / FLAC
  • MP3
Vinyl, 2×LP, Limited ColouredSold outLtd. Edition Orange & Green Vinyl 2xLP

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By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one of the most avidly followed musicians in West Africa. His audience came from among the region's urban poor, the "sufferheads" living in the shanty towns around the major cities, along with growing numbers of students and political dissenters. Fela championed, and sang about the problems of, oppressed and exploited people and denounced the ruling elites lording it over them, with their seemingly endemic corruption and their ready use of violence to crush dissent. Because he generally sang in Broken English rather than Yoruba, and adopted an increasingly pan-Africanist outlook, his message resonated throughout Anglophone Africa.

The 50th-anniversary reissue of Roforofo Fight is pressed on double orange & green vinyl. Side D features singles "Shenshema" and "Ariya" on vinyl for the first time. The two tracks were originally released as a 7" single in 1972 and later featured in the CD reissue of Roforofo Fight / The Fela Singles

#
Track
Artist
Time
01
Roforofo Fight
Fela Kuti
00:15:38
02
Go Slow
Fela Kuti
00:17:25
03
Question Jam Answer
Fela Kuti
00:13:39
04
Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am
Fela Kuti
00:12:06
05
Shenshema
Fela Kuti
00:09:09
06
Ariya
Fela Kuti
00:10:20