"Opening with a spacey duet between Fela on keyboards and powerhouse drummer Tony Allen that sounds like an outtake from Miles Davis' electric period, the title track is a mercilessly funky, 25-minute journey. Yet even as Fela decries Nigeria's post-colonial plight in a mix of pidgin English and West African Yoruba, the song never loses track of its central mission to move bodies as well as minds."
Chris Barton in the Los Angeles Times claims that "2010 might be the year of Fela" Kuti.
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