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Like its predecessors in the series, this version will be on colour vinyl and the LP will be wrapped in a gold foil obi strip with a brief essay on the album and Fela’s global impact on music. Like Fela’s other early 70s releases, he used each side of his LPs to create a deep groove that pulls the listener in and follows with metaphoric lyrics that call out and critique the corrupt hangover of colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e The album is the sound of Afrobeat's maturation as a global music. Fela’s Pidgin English lyrics extend his music’s audience beyond Yoruba speakers and make his words understandable across the Anglophone world.\u003cbr\u003e In ‘Lady’, Fela highlights the adoption of European social habits to the detriment of African culture. ‘Shakara’ is a mainly instrumental track, with a brief lyric, sung in Yoruba, warning against boasters and braggarts. 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