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On the remix, Rema wakes the dead as he features the late Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti and American designer and Disc Jockey, Virgil Abloh.

This portion of the reissues series, entitled Zombie in celebration of Felas most well known song, spans the years 1976 1980.

Containing 11 albums, this period of Felas storied career saw his Kalakuta Republic increasingly under siege from the Nigerian government, and the clear rise of his vitriol as it fermented into scathing musical diatribes.

CDs and 23 albums have already been re-released this year through this landmark reissue series, and the reaction has been rapturous as Felas music continues to find new audiences every day.

Interestingly, the 1976 album Upside Down features the vocals of Sandra Isadore the American woman who introduced Fela to the Black Power Movement.

Music Of Many Colours is collaboration with American vibraphonist Roy Ayers.

However, with persistent scandals of corruption as the standard in every administration since independence, the army has lost all credibility to effect any change in the system.

He points to the foreign exchange scandal that prompted the military regime to arrest highly placed Nigerians.

Most of them were tried and sentenced to jail terms ranging from five to fifteen years.

But with the change from military to civil rule, most of the jailed socialites were released by the new administrations a preview organized by the departing military regime that Fela accuses.

Fela points to the fact that the military handed power to the same elite politicians who prompted the army to seize power earlier.

He concludes that it is an arrangement dating from the ex-colonial rulers, who put the military in place to do their dirty work, and calls the whole political maneuver Army Arrangement.

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