Ikoyi Blindness Fela Kuti SKU: KFR2017-3 Barcode: 0720841207733 19.00 £19.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Knitting Factory Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 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 means ‘he who carries death in his pouch.’ The front cover shows Ransome crossed out and Anikulapo added above it. Fela also used the album cover to announce the Africanisation of Africa 70’s name, changing it to Afrika 70. In the title track, Fela draws attention to the economic chasm separating the haves and have-nots of Nigerian society, contrasting the get-rich-at-all-costs mindset of the residents of the prosperous Lagos suburb Ikoyi with the more community-minded attitude of the poor inhabitants of the Mushin, Maroko, Ajegunle and Somolu neighbourhoods. Ikoyi residents are blind to the sufferings of less fortunate people, said Fela. Fela returns to the topic on the second track, ‘Gba Mi Leti Ki N’Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money)’. In Lagos in 1975 and 1976, there had been an upsurge in police and military personnel assaults on people in the street; motorists were commonly pulled out of their vehicles and given a whipping for minor traffic offenses. Scandalously, the police and soldiers were being allowed to get away with corruption in broad daylight. In the lyric, Fela demands that the judiciary administer the law equally, without fear or favour. LP pressed on iresi (opaque white) vinyl housed in a single sleeve jacket. Artist Fela Kuti Genre World / Fusion Label Knitting Factory Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Ikoyi Blindness Gba Mi Leti Ki N’Dolowo (Slap Me Make I Get Money) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Fela Kuti View Product Quick View Fela Kuti Original Sufferhead World / Fusion | Knitting Factory | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd February 2024 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fela Kuti Original Sufferhead £19.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Knitting Factory SKU: KFR2039-3 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fela Kuti O.D.O.O. (Overtake Don Overtake Overtake) World / Fusion | Knitting Factory | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd February 2024 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fela Kuti O.D.O.O. 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