Comments on: FELA KUTI / “Fela Kuti Black President Mixtape” http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2009/11/23/fela-kuti-%e2%80%9cfela-kuti-black-president-mixtape%e2%80%9d/ a conversation about black music Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:39:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: drbopperthp http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2009/11/23/fela-kuti-%e2%80%9cfela-kuti-black-president-mixtape%e2%80%9d/#comment-175101 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:57:00 -0600 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2009/11/23/fela-kuti-%e2%80%9cfela-kuti-black-president-mixtape%e2%80%9d/#comment-175101 My life - in terms of how music impacted it (Happy 50th Motown! = Hometown.) - was changed forever when I first heard Robert Johnson, Betty Davis and Fela, all in the same summer while in college at Brown. Never saw, heard, smelt, or felt anything the same way ever again in my life. When James Brown died I spent the entire day rocking nothing but JB & Fela tunes. My life - in terms of how music impacted it (Happy 50th Motown! = Hometown.) - was changed forever when I first heard Robert Johnson, Betty Davis and Fela, all in the same summer while in college at Brown. Never saw, heard, smelt, or felt anything the same way ever again in my life. When James Brown died I spent the entire day rocking nothing but JB & Fela tunes.

]]> by: Ekere http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2009/11/23/fela-kuti-%e2%80%9cfela-kuti-black-president-mixtape%e2%80%9d/#comment-179510 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:23:14 -0600 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2009/11/23/fela-kuti-%e2%80%9cfela-kuti-black-president-mixtape%e2%80%9d/#comment-179510 Ashe!!!!! Your writing is an altar to Fela's genius and fearlessness. I had read many times that Fela married the ladies to stand up to those who were against polygamy. What you have shared here--that he married them after the rapes--that right there is some seriously revolutionary business as so many women globally are "shamed" and shunned because they are victims of sexual assault.Thank you for this. Incredible. Ashe!!!!! Your writing is an altar to Fela’s genius and fearlessness.

I had read many times that Fela married the ladies to stand up to those who were against polygamy. What you have shared here–that he married them after the rapes–that right there is some seriously revolutionary business as so many women globally are “shamed” and shunned because they are victims of sexual assault.Thank you for this. Incredible.

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