Artist
Fela Kuti & Africa 70
Fela Kuti & Africa 70 appears 7 times in our Afrobeat, 1976, Dancing to Bad News, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 7
- Appears on
- Afrobeat, 1976, Dancing to Bad News, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Years
- 1975–1977
- Highest placing
- No. 1 in Afrobeat
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Appears on
Zombie
1976 · Coconut
Ranked No. 1 in 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, Dancing to Bad News, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Water No Get Enemy
1975 · Coconut
Ranked No. 2 in 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
Sorrow Tears and Blood
1977 · Kalakuta
Ranked No. 4 in 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.
Zombie
1976 · Coconut
Picked by 1976
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, Dancing to Bad News, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Zombie
1976 · Coconut
Picked by 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, 1976, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Zombie
1976 · Coconut
Picked by The Waxonia 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, 1976, Dancing to Bad News
Water No Get Enemy
1975 · Coconut
Picked by The Waxonia 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