Comments on: Bongos Ikwue :: Woman Made The Devil

By: tedd

tedd — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:13:08 +0000

I’m completely with you–I’ve gleaned all the great tracks from the Ethopiques series, a bunch of Franco stuff, Sir Victor Uwaifo and other stuff. Great, great stuff, a huge breath of fresh air

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:41:06 +0000

It may be, but the sodding thing is still seventy five!!! quid on Amazon and as such there is little prospect of my buying it anytime soon.

2nd hand shops probably a better bet.

By: M-J

M-J — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:10:37 +0000

ib: WTF? While I won’t defend the lyrical content, I feel compelled to point out that Afrobeat was and is the soundtrack to the resistance against the military juntas, poverty and oppression that have long dominated the lives of ordinary Nigerians. And Nigeria is “immediately next door” to Uganda and Rwanda just like Colorado is “immediately next door” to New York State. In fact, the Rwandan genocide was laregely fuelled by the exhortations of the junta-controlled media; while Afrobeat, especially as practised by Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has always preached tolerance and understanding. In other words, the only turd here is your ignorant and bass-ackwards comment.

(Nigeria70 is one of the great, great, great Afrobeat comps — worth it for the pic of the dude on the cover alone.)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:17:10 +0000

I am so universally put off by anything that faintly whiffs of World Music that I instinctively recoiled at this post.

Then I listened to the song.

Then I ate my words!

By: ib

ib — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:11:41 +0000

Great find, and the album looks worth possessing for its cover alone. But the lyrics ? – “God made a man/ and man made a woman/ but a woman made the Devil/ and we’ll throw her out through the window”… Please.

What seems mere saloon room whisky machismo coming from Merle Haggard, sounds positively chilling when you consider Nigeria’s present “tensions” and the fact that it is immediately next door to both Uganda and Rwanda. I can all too easily imagine Kofi Anan bopping around to this in preparation for some media junket while he dismissed the Canadian UN forces request to seize the horded machetes before things got really “out of hand”. What a prize turd.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:51:55 +0000

Damnit! This track is so fantastic on sooooo many levels…..brilliant!