Fela Kuti & Africa 70

Biography

The 1970s billing of Fela Kuti's Lagos Afrobeat ensemble, with *Tony Allen* as musical director. Records such as 'Zombie' (1976), released by #Coconut Records#, fused funk, jazz and highlife into direct attacks on Nigeria's military rulers, sung in Nigerian Pidgin over extended grooves built for the Afrika Shrine stage in Lagos. The band was renamed Egypt '80 at the end of the decade.