#afrobeat
that is: move your asses, people.
(15) Fela Kuti & The Afrika '70 – Coffin For Head Of State (1981)
The cover of this famous song shows images from a protest that took place in 1979 in Lagos, Nigeria, in front of the Dodan military barracks, at the time the residence of the ruling dictator, General Olusegun Obasanjo (more recently, from 1999 to 2007, a democratically elected president). The protesters carried a coffin that symbolically represented the casket of Fela Kuti's mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti – born in 1900, a teacher and women's rights activist – who had been killed just the year before by soldiers of the regime during a violent raid against Kalakuta Republic, the Ransome-Kuti clan's compound, as retaliation for the continuous musical provocations from the great artist considered the father of afrobeat... The Kuti family's large house was burned and destroyed, many family members were injured, and several women were raped... Fela's mother, 77 years old, was thrown out of a window and died after several weeks in a coma.
(information copied here: Canzoni contro la guerra - Coffin for Head of State
Coffin For Head Of State