Over his long career he was jailed many times and was a constant activist for free speech and human rights. Zombie, I.T.T/Original Sufferhead, Roroforo Fight and Unnecesarry begging are some of his best albums. Check out the fantastic songs Unnecessary Begging, Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am,
and No Buredi(No Bread).
I saw Fela in the early '90s in Vancouver while I was a DJ at CITR(A Voice of Dissent). It was a fantastic show.
When we look at the puppet military "democracy" in Nigeria its easy to see how a whole nation can be controlled by a US puppet regime that is marketed as "democracy". Sort of how a minority government placed in power by less than 20% of the public eligible to vote in Canada can burrow right in and dismantle the social safety net and personal freedoms that 50 years of INTELLIGENT and humane socialism had built up.
Harper has turned Canada from a country looked at as an example of human rights and dignity, to a country known for its bigotry and corruption. Sending Afghani prisoners to be tortured, sending the Canadian military in the first place to kill people of an opposing religious group in THEIR country, paranilitarizing and dumbing down the STRAIGHT WHITE Canadian police forces, dismantling and privatizing healthcare, municipal and provincial gov'ts riddled with gang insiders and paper bag payout deals, stealing BILLIONS from the E.I. "surplus" that all working Canadians payed into, and worst of all, using this time as PM to allow his Christian cabinet ministers to further erode legislation that once protected Canadians from poverty and illegitimate incarceration for personal lifestyle choices...
Give him a majority and the Charter of rights will be repealed so he can legally target the queers, potheads, and pagans. Harper's goal is the re-christianization of Canada, and the massive implementation of a wage slave class with no rights whatsoever. He's already well on his way, implementing draconian legislation to incarcerate people for smaller amounts of weed (a year in jail for a single pot plant!). Human rights offices all over Canada have been closed, in every province, none of the Canadian Human Rights tribunals/courts/councils can be reached with an email, so there is no tracking of complaints, no one can say they weren't listened to, because their is never any record of a complaint or the process. But on paper, in the phone book, and online, it looks like they have these resources. It's all for show though. It's similiar to that "we don't have a poverty problem anymore, because we don't count poverty statistics" game that the Canadian government has played for years to keep the world from knowing what does happen here.
For 20 years we watched Reagan (ray-gun) build massive jails then fill them with lower class people mostly for minor offenses like smoking pot or putting some other substance prohibited by christians into their bodies. It didn't make the U.S. a better place, and its not going to do anything but make a bunch of Harper's buddies rich off the misery of minor offenders. While millions went without medicare Ray-gun built massive defense initiatives. Harper is about to pay out $500 MILLION to an american firm for a bridge while welfare recipients in Canada are required to pay their own bus passes to trudge around and find work.
TROUBLE SLEEP, YANGA WAKE AM by Fela Kuti
When Trouble sleep,Yanga go wake am,
Waking him dey find
*[CHORUS] PALAVER, HE DEY FIND
Palaver**, he go get-e o **(trouble)
PALAVER, HE GO GET
Palaver
When cat sleep,
Rat go bite him tail,
Waking him dey find,
cho.
Tenant lost him job,
Him sit down for house,
Him dey think of job,
Mr. Landord come wake am up,
He say, “Mister, pay me your rent”
cho.
My friend just come from prison,
Him dey look for work,
Waka* waka day and night, *(walk)
Police man come stop am for road,
He say, “Mister, I charge you for wandering”
Waking him dey find
cho.
Mr. Husband marry for church,
He make big party,
Then he start to spray**, **(tip, usually musicians)
Because him love him wife,
Him say, “wife come run away”
Bank manager run come,
He say, “Mister, pay me your debt”
Waking him dey find, for Lagos e-o
cho.
When Trouble sleep,
Yanga go wake am,
Waking him dey find
cho.
When cat sleep,
Rat go bite him tail,
Waking him dey find,
cho.
Explanation:
Don’t kick people when they are down,
Nor bother them at inappropriate times:
There is a limit to patience.
When things are calm,
Don’t start trouble by bothering people who are struggling to get by.
