Record
Zombie
Fela Kuti and Africa '701977
At a glance
- Artist
- Fela Kuti and Africa '70
- Released
- 1977
In the issue
Afrobeat
Start here · 1968-1997 · Members
Afrobeat's biggest hit and its most direct political confrontation, showing the real-world stakes of Fela's music.
The 12-minute title track compared Nigerian soldiers to mindless zombies incapable of independent thought—"Zombie no go walk unless you tell am to walk"—and it became a runaway hit across Nigeria.
The rest is in Afrobeat, a members' issue.