Contests: Fela Kuti-Best of the Black President CD and Tshirt Giveaway!


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    Fela Kuti: Best of the Black President
    The Best Of The Black President signifies the rebirth of Knitting Factory Records. Over the next 18 months, Knitting Factory Records will be re-mastering and re-releasing all 45 Fela Kuti titles - his entire catalog - in unique digi-packs with the original artwork. The reissue series also marks the first time that all of Fela's titles will be released on vinyl in North America, as well as the first official release of the entire Koola Lobitos catalog, Fela's 1960s highlife band.

    The inaugural release of the re-issue series, The Best Of The Black President, compiles 13 of his most popular compositions, including the classic cuts: "Water No Get Enemy," "Zombie," "Roforofo Fight" and many more.




    The impact of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's music in Africa - and worldwide - cannot be overstated. Hailing from Lagos, Nigeria, he was Africa's musical genius - the creator of Afrobeat, a genre combining traditional African highlife, jazz, James Brown funk grooves and Latin rhythms into a unique, toxic mix that is wholly his own - and a revolutionary. Fela's politically inflammatory songs lay bare the corruption, violence, and greed of the ruling regimes across the Continent and world. Even after hundreds of arrests and beatings at the hands of the government, Fela never stopped fighting the powers of imperialism, colonialism and racism with, as the legendary Fela Kuti put it, music as his weapon.