# Fela Kuti & Africa 70 — Every Record We Rank Fela Kuti & Africa 70 appears 8 times in our Afrobeat, 1976, Dancing to Bad News, Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick. - **Ranked entries:** 8 - **Appears on:** Afrobeat, 1976, Dancing to Bad News, Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred - **Years:** 1975–1977 - **Highest placing:** No. 1 in Afrobeat - **Updated:** 2026-08-29 - **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/artist/fela-kuti-and-africa-70/ ## Appears on ### [Zombie](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--zombie/) *1976 · Coconut · No. 1 in [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/)* Twelve minutes calling the Nigerian army a column of unthinking bodies. The state responded by burning his compound down, which is the most direct review any record on this site has received. Also on: [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/), [Dancing to Bad News](https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/), [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Zombie) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSg31Ignw4) ### [Water No Get Enemy](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--water-no-get-enemy/) *1975 · Coconut · No. 2 in [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/)* The gentlest thing he made and the one people who dislike political music still love. A proverb, a horn line, and Tony Allen playing the most relaxed complicated drum part imaginable. Also on: [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Water%20No%20Get%20Enemy) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jx2qcKd1-0) ### [Sorrow Tears and Blood](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--sorrow-tears-and-blood/) *1977 · Kalakuta · No. 4 in [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/)* Recorded after the soldiers came. The groove is as buoyant as ever and the lyric is a list of what they left behind, and the gap between the two is the whole point. [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Sorrow%20Tears%20and%20Blood) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9EXbJDodN9Y) ### [Zombie](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--zombie/) *1976 · Coconut · Picked by [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/)* Twelve minutes calling the Nigerian army a column of unthinking bodies, released in Nigeria while that army was in power. They burned his compound down for it and threw his mother out of a window. Nothing else here cost its maker as much. Also on: [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/), [Dancing to Bad News](https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/), [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Zombie) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSg31Ignw4) ### [Zombie](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--zombie/) *1976 · Coconut · Picked by [Dancing to Bad News](https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/)* Twelve minutes of the most physically irresistible band on the continent, spent calling the Nigerian army a column of unthinking bodies. The soldiers who burned his compound down had understood it; the dancefloor never had to. Also on: [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/), [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/), [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Zombie) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSg31Ignw4) ### [Zombie](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--zombie/) *1976 · Coconut · Picked by [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/)* This one is Radio Nova. I had come out of a very Anglo-Saxon club world in England, and the people there kept putting African and Brazilian records in front of me until my ears were open to all of it. Also on: [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/), [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/), [Dancing to Bad News](https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/), [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Zombie) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSg31Ignw4) ### [Zombie](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--zombie/) *1976 · Coconut · Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/)* Twelve minutes calling the army a column of unthinking bodies, answered by the state burning his compound down. Few records have been taken this seriously by their subject. Also on: [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/), [1976](https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/), [Dancing to Bad News](https://waxonia.com/theme/dancing-to-bad-news/), [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Zombie) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RUSg31Ignw4) ### [Water No Get Enemy](https://waxonia.com/track/fela-kuti-and-africa-70--water-no-get-enemy/) *1975 · Coconut · Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/)* A proverb, a horn line, and Tony Allen playing the most relaxed complicated drum part imaginable. The way in for anyone who finds the politics forbidding. Also on: [Afrobeat](https://waxonia.com/genre/afrobeat/). [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Fela%20Kuti%20%26%20Africa%2070%20Water%20No%20Get%20Enemy) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jx2qcKd1-0) --- Hand-curated by Waxonia. We host no audio; all links point to streaming platforms.