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File under: AfrobeatAfro-Funk

Fela Kuti

J.J.D (Johnny Just Drop!!) - Live!! At Kalakuta Republik (LP)

Label: Knitting Factory Records

Format: LP

Genre: Jazz

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*2023 stock* "Johnny Just Drop is talking about Africans who travel abroad only to return home with new values and mannerisms. Since the advent of colonialism in Africa, the education system left Black people with an inferior perception of their culture. Those who are Western educated, are in the habit of repeating untruths about African traditions and heritage, because the discipline to think and act big has not yet become a part of Africa’s present day academic and intellectual traditions. For example, those trained in the use of English, Spanish, German, French or Portuguese languages will argue forcefully that those are international languages in which alone science and technology can be intelligently studied. If this is true, one wonders how the ancient Black Egyptians built the pyramids or how the guild of craftsmen in Benin and other parts of the continent created the works of art produced over many centuries past. In JJD, Fela is reminding Africans travelling abroad in search of greener pastures to be proud of their original cultural values—those inherent values the JJD ‘educated’ elite have been brainwashed to despise." - Mabinuori Kayode Idowu
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File under: AfrobeatAfro-Funk
Cat. number: KFR2026-1
Year: 2017
Notes:
Recorded at Decca 16-track Studios, Lagos, Nigeria Artist on disc "Fela & The Africa 70" Title on cover "J.J.D (Johnny Just Drop!!) - Live!! At Kalakuta Republik" Title on spine "Fela - J.J.D." ℗ 1977, 2017 FAK UNDER EXCLUSIVE LICENSE TO KNITTING FACTORY RECORDS INC. © 2017 KNITTING FACTORY RECORDS INC. ORIGINALLY RELEASED 1977 | KFR2026-1 Comes with folded insert with credits and lyrics.

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