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Beasts of No Nation

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Beasts of No Nation is an album by the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. It was released in 1989. Kuti is credited with his band Egypt 80. Kuti played the title track on his 1986 North American tour and promoted it in interviews. The album sold around 15,000 copies in the United States in its first year of release. The 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala takes its title from the album. Production Beasts of No Nation was produced by Wally Badarou. Kuti began thinking about the album while in jail for infractions related to foreign currency and wrote the songs after being released. The title track accuses the Nigerian government and military of transgressions against the Nigerian populace; among other grievances, the album also condemns apartheid. Kuti's use of the phrase basket mouth acknowledges his music's responsibility to protest.

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Notable quotes

“I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.”
— Agu
“I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.”
— Agu
“And now the woman is praying to God... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country.”
— Agu

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Beasts of No Nation: 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala · 2015 film directed by Cary Fukunaga

Notable quotes

“I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.”
— Agu
“I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.”
— Agu
“And now the woman is praying to God... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country.”
— Agu

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Beasts of No Nation is an album by the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. It was released in 1989. Kuti is credited with his band Egypt 80. Kuti played the title track on his 1986 North American tour and promoted it in interviews. The album sold around 15,000 copies in the United States in its first year of release. The 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala takes its title from the album. Production Beasts of No Nation was produced by Wally Badarou. Kuti began thinking about the album while in jail for infractions related to foreign currency and wrote the songs after being released. The title track accuses the Nigerian government and military of transgressions against the Nigerian populace; among other grievances, the album also condemns apartheid. Kuti's use of the phrase basket mouth acknowledges his music's responsibility to protest.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).