LADY - Fela ANIKULAPO KUTI & AFRICA 70

In the song “LADY” Fela criticised the use of White Western values and standards of feminine beauty in Africa. However to his detractors songs such as this are interpreted as anti-feminist or simply “macho”. To those who really knew him, he was never anti feminist as he was only saying African women have always made the decisions in African traditional homes, today’s African woman doesn’t need ‘feminist cause’ to be in-charge.
Fela’s endorsement of polygamy is not anti feminist as polygamy is not unique with African men. Europeans and European-Americans, who marry under Christian laws at the same time keep mistresses, are only being hypocrites. They should learn from Africans who keep all their women under one roof to avoid any ambiguity. This is why we say that the best way to celebrate Fela is to make his vision for Africa a reality. The search for the phenomenon Fela Anikulapo-Kuti can start from his legacy, the film BLACK PRESIDENT produced and personally financed by the afrobeat icon himself.
Principal shooting of the film was completed one day before the Nigerian Army soldiers attack on Kalakuta on 18th February 1977. The original sound-track was burnt in the inferno but thanks to my participation, knowledge of the film’s scenarios, evolution in technology today, plus the technical competence of my friend Olivier Van’l in a fantastic collaboration, we resynchronized the sound that was destroyed in the Kalakuta attack. Here is our modest attempt to give life to the film a challenge to the Nigerian (Nollywood) film industry!
Mabinuori Kayode IDOWU aka ID
#FelaANIKULAPOKUTI #blackpresidentfilm #afrobeat

[@MrMsomali]

My God...down memory lane in the mid 1970s. Fela was a genius!!! Fact.

[@jamisa3668]

Dadkaygii miyaad tahay

[@mannym1171]

There’s something magical about this video. ❤❤❤. Love it.

[@nielblackwood5480]

This is more than a beautiful attempt at restoring the audio with the video 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 I wish I could see more like this

[@TheEmilylander]

Thank you ❤️

[@iktheboy7594]

Ok is this the actual video of the song...? Or it wmis another video interposed with?

[@Edith-u8t]

I am so proud to learn the legacy of this great man Fela. I always knew his name as an African American born in New York but raised in Alabama and lived in Europe and became friends with Nigerian and Ghanaian friends for life. His music is great and I love how he love our Mother Africa. Yes, Africa is my home as well. I will be in Nigeria and will return again to Ghana.

[@giovannipistoresi664]

The best music ever made

[@oluggbal3005]

WOW!!! WOW!! WOW!!!!!..........Cant say thank you enough for this....wooooowwwww....memories.....thanks so much for the post..

[@CoSu1006]

This song gives me chills! The beginning of the end of the black family forever! Black Man please know that I am not your equal in no other sense than being a human being! I…black woman is your counterpart…not your equal! Thank you Mr Kuti for trying so hard to prevent the catastrophic condition of Black man and black woman relationships! Please Lord intervene and bring back the harmony of and organic nature of our people! Thank you again…Mr Fela Kuti! ♥️

[@LifewithPwencess]

Beautiful . I miss you more today . felabration 🔥🔥🔥

[@lazyl950]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! Never seen this and I thought I had seen EVERYTHING. Thank You Thank You!!!!🙌

[@melo7346]

It's the lady at the back, just vibing💃💃

[@ejeige]

Oh wow, Awesome. Thank you.

[@josephinempundu4205]

I Love, love Fela. Great musician. He is in an era of his own.

[@obikarobert5861]

Tony Allen(Drummer) on 1:27....that beat was spot on

[@brianmuyengwa]

One of my five alltime best musicians

[@faustekeu6826]

Légende "encore vivante" très grand respect

[@Frititi75]

FELA WAS A BIG MAN. I LIKE HIM TOO MUCH

[@jonrogers2269]

Brilliant, had the Track for Decades never evr seen the footage

[@libadviser8793]

A colossus of African music, RIP Fela, love from SA

[@helenbestman5338]

This brother was the bomb! Didn't agree with all the wives. This song is fire 🔥🔥🔥

[@lpmidalo]

PERFECT, GOD BLESS YOU

[@William_sJazzLoft]

It's definitely one of Fela's more popular tunes

[@obaaareoflondon6373]

Beautiful, watch musical signs between Baba ANI on Baritone Sax and Tony Allen on Drums and FELA. Amazing.

[@okpanam1]

I believe this is fela at the height of his musical fame. I am sure that there are so many live videos from the 70s like this that are lost in the vault.

[@siasiakoripamo3951]

This is lovely

[@babatundebakare6678]

Forever in our ❤️

[@dayoofere8513]

Young Baba Ani on the sax,Tony Allen on the drum

[@Lydioski]

Fantastic.

[@ianfhancock1541]

Una du wel oh!!

[@seyiidowu4754]

well done sir, looking forward to seeing the reconstruction of other salvaged parts of the film, always a thing of sadness for me that this film which documents the life, the man, the legend and the genius in the music was destroyed in that unfortunate incidence.

[@lawrencewycliffe3809]

Rest well,Tony Allen(Drummer) and Fela

[@nikeak]

Thank you for this video. I do disagree with your description. Fela was rather vocally un/anti-feminist. His other music like Mattress and Shakara Oloje attest to this. As do his real life opinions that men ought to dominate women captured in several interviews with him.

[@josephinempundu4205]

I am ever coming back here to dance. Timeless music.

[@franckrogertanoe4161]

Priceless

[@mazafran7448]

Thanks youuuuuu❤️✈️

[@plushannah]

Awesome

[@opeyemieletu5379]

I used to think this song was done by the Egypt 80 band. I didn't know it was done by the Africa 70. Wow!

[@Frititi75]

Good job FELA

[@tshepobozzamotsoane8529]

Expensive sculptured african music

[@malicksy7175]

Fela Ys Universal musicien

[@CoSu1006]

Who is the man with the saxophone with the hat? So handsome! 😍

[@aprendendoitalianoonline5096]

This guy no Be Smolo ...... I use to go to Shrine in Lagos .... good time

[@lapoupee88]

she go say i be ladyyyyyoooooooo...... she gon say anything man do HIMSELF E DO!!! she wont take meat..b4 nobody....OYAfiyaaa dance ladys! Africain woman!

[@akunamatata4668]

ELOMBÉ MOBALI...

[@dayooyekan1983]

2nd best baba song ever

[@dayooyekan1983]

After AA......

[@deekj3860]

What's aa?

[@cheikh_anta_dioplivraria1689]

Hotep from (A)Ngola!

[@FelaRadioShrine]

Respect

[@curtiszyr]

Bruh was tryna tell us about feminist from way back 😂

[@bobocamewegokokinovadonesh6627]

Tell me anything I'm missing and I know I'm not missing anything . Thanks my African ancestors

[@kinavuidimateta9007]

le grand fela

[@DanjoumaTchandi-qg1my]

Je.vue.la.chanson.de.fela.kuti

[@hopeolaiya6462]

Lady no be so, lady na master.

[@louisotieno4712]

I never tell you,finish 😅😂

[@abdiqadiromarabdullahi5980]

giorni d'oro

[@SoftkidOghenevwegba]

❤

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

1:11 Join ya round the back o' the bike shed.

[@agirl_crazy1936]

Nice

[@Wolf-qy5kz]

Ogostin!

[@mishacknthane1060]

Master the chief priest

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

2:13 GOOD IDEA! LET'S HAVE A CIGAR BREAK.

[@filsdejeannoir1776]

2:17 No. Door open by itself.

[@denis-demenace-ogi]

"To those who really knew him, he was never anti feminist as he was only saying African women have always made the decisions in African traditional homes, today’s African woman doesn’t need ‘feminist cause’ to be in-charge." Your attempt to rewrite history is shameful. This is an anti-woman song and you should be honest enough to leave it at that. Fela was a great entertainer and artiste but he was also a man who was FLAWED and that should also be part of his history. The things he said in this song were the things men and society said back then. Today, we know better, well, let me rephrase this and say, some of us know better. I am a man, once famous and someone who was there when Fela died and covered his burial and broadcast it to the rest of Lagos and most of Western Nigeria as far as our transmitter could reach. I did shows with him and his sons and Dede know who I am. I cook and wash the DISHES in my home and yes, I have a spouse and I do not see my doing chores as less than! Your line about African women making decisions in the traditional African home is also not true as none of the women who lived with Fela himself made any decisions in his home! Just saying....

[@louisotieno4712]

You're right on some things and not right on others... He merely differentiated Western Woman with African man,and How Colomentality charged our African women to start behaving like Western women

[@denis-demenace-ogi]

@@louisotieno4712 Which is the same backward mindset I have talked about. What is appropriate about how we as men treat women in Africa? Why would you want to hold on to such abusive and regressive practices. That in 2020, we are still talking about Western women and African men is nothing but a shame if you do not understand this. Whether you are African or western, you are human first and foremost, what makes the difference is, the rest of the world is moving towards an existence in which every human being whether male or female gets to live a life of full POTENTIALS , instead I am having to respond to the merits of treating women as less than. Until you realize, women whether in Africa or outside Africa deserve respect from you as human beings, you are no better than Fela and his treatment of women, period and again, Fela was dead wrong from start to finish!

[@empoweredbimb0]

african women in my culture are very important. they are head of the house while doing household chores and all. they also call family meetings and all. i think western ideas are what set africa back because the way they treated women are horrible. this is why we have ideals about virginity and all this other stuff

[@denis-demenace-ogi]

@@empoweredbimb0 You have not told me which African culture you are referring to so I will not address your contention. I spoke about the Fela I knew and the culture he endorsed in his own household, period!

[@annapluskota3247]

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