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A1 Do Your Best (Faze Action Remix) 07:57
B1 Do Your Best (Faze Action Dub) 06:48
B2 Do Your Best (Original Feat Mos Def) 06:07
C1 Fight to Win (Ernest St Laurent Iron Roses Mix) 07:01
D1 Fight to Win (Original) 03:52
D2 Fight to Win (Jam at Zarma) 04:13
D3 Do Your Best (Faze Action Bonus Beats) 04:17
Total Playtime: 40:15 min
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cat-nr: 570 541 1
The time since MCA's February 2000 release of Femi Kuti's
Shoki Shoki has been an eternity for Nigeria, the African
giant of 120 million inhabitants and 256 ethnic groups.
When the eldest son of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti finally proved
to the ears of the world that he wasn't a genetic shadow
of the Black President and that the planet could count on
him, the country was coming out of close to 20 years of
military dictatorship. The world's sixth largest oil
producer, the cultural giant of the black continent, had
recently elected a new President. Sani Abache, the last
Nigerian kleptocrat, was dead, a victim, according to
rumours, of a Viagra-charged orgy that went wrong. Freedom
was on the march.
An eternity for Nigeria. The elected President of the
Federation of 36 states, Olusegun Obasanjo, a former army
leader denounced by Fela in Army Arrangement, has recently
celebrated his investiture two years ago at the Aso Rock
palace in Abuja. But today, regrettably, it is more often
question of "Democrazy" than of Democracy. The return to
freedom of the most fascinating and impenetrable people of
the black continent was accompanied by new disruptions,
often bloody, and regional demands. A little like a
pressure cooker heated too long, the Nigerian lid blew
off, revealing, from northern Haussa to south-western
Yoruba, from eastern Ibo to the myriad ethnic groups of
the delta oil fields, and including the Tiv middle-belt, a
multitude of social-political scars sadly recurrent since
the seventies: the seizure by a wheeler-dealer oligarchy
of bountiful oil dividends, a persistent imbalance in the
decision-making structures to the benefit of northern
military mafias, chronic underdevelopment of the north as
well as the southern delta. Despite enforced army
retirements and the installation of a commission of
enquiry into exactions carried out under the
dictatorships, regrettably it is the same guests who seem
to share the national cake, a prize that stirs local as
much as international interest. Against a background of
the installation of Islamic law in the northern states and
the rise of self-defence movements in the south, Nigeria
still resembles a supertanker sailing in a pitch-black
night towards a hurricane.
It's in such an uncertain context that Fight To Win
appears, equipped with 12 tracks like spokesmen for a
tomorrow yet to be decided, whatever the Cassandras may
think. All the same, a thorough pessimist, the first to
recognize the evils that still stalk his country, from the
opium of religion to corruption, Femi has neither put away
his protective sax nor softened his views. As if motivated
by the new freedom of expression in his country, Femi has
never been as incisive and precise. He has had time to
find his own way, as much in terms of his weighty paternal
inheritance ù Afrobeat ù as towards the ethnic traps that
spring from his own social statute. If he's Yoruba ù like
his scathing attack, Alkebu-Lu, denouncing the Western
hold-up that includes even the names of the countries of
the black continent ù, Femi has freed himself from his
statute of Lagos spokesman to become he who speaks out in
the name of all Nigerians. For all Africans. And to all
those, moreover, who think music can still carry meaning.
The other challenge to be met was, in effect, to address
the West directly once again. To all those, from New York
to Paris (where this album was produced by Sodi), who have
already made this man the main representative of the New
Africa. Fight To Win hasn't lost its soul in the assumed
comings and goings between North and South.
Born in London, educated in Lagos, nurtured by American
beats, Femi has even succeeded in bringing to his own soil
the New Yorker Mos Def (on "Do Your Best"); his Chicago
alter ego, Common (on "Missing Link"); and the revelation
Jaguar Wright, on the astonishing title track, boiling
over with suppressed tension, like a day of traffic jams
on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. And for the first
time, Femi sings of his father, Fela: "he who carried
death in his quiver," whom he mourns on the most poignant
track on the disc ("'97"). "Traitors Of Africa" is at that
level emblematic of the changes that have come about since
Shoki Shoki's release, an eternity in the head of this
39-year-old adult. Abandoning metaphor, Femi practices for
the first time the social/political name-dropping
developed by his father. With two years to go before the
next presidential elections -- crucial for the country's
future as it is for the whole region --, "Traitors Of
Africa" doesn't hesitate to aim directly at Ibrahim
Babangida, alias IBB, alias the Maradona of Nigerian
politics, alias the Prince of Niger, at the moment when
this former Nigerian dictator is preparing his return to
the political arena, backed by a war chest estimated by
the American business magazine Forbes at around 21 billion
dollars.
It has been four years since Fela was interred in an Ikeja
mausoleum. Four years, as well, since Sola and Frances, a
sister and a cousin of Femi's, respectively, also
tragically died. An eternity. Femi Kuti no longer plays.
He simply is. With his wife Funke, his son Made, and with
his other sister Yeni, he is henceforth a planet
well-placed in the constellation of messengers. We left
him as an inheritor. We find him anew as a descendant. But
"the son of the tiger remains a tiger," recalls a Yoruba
proverb. With Femi, music asserts itself once again as the
weapon of the future and of pan-Africanism, continuing the
steadfast vision of his father. This musician of entropy,
of Lagos 2001, of that controlled chaos where one moves
without warning from the medieval to the mobile, has put
no more in these 12 tracks than the munitions necessary
for the reality of a budding 21st Century. Less mysticism,
more pragmatism. Less trance, more self-control. The beat,
more taut, passes from malarial febrility to twilight
calm. Among waves of brass there is electronic spray,
courtesy of Beastie Boys keyboardist Money Mark, who
parades his black and white notes throughout the album.
Fight to Win is an album resolutely rooted in today's
Africa, where tradition meets corruption, and the gorge
between the rich and the poor is a festering wound. And if
it's only an echo of that new African community that
despairs of exorcising its old demons, it is without doubt
the most eagerly awaited testimony of the autumn. With
Femi, one can definitively open one's eyes on the
aspirations of the young children of Africa's independent
states.
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