RISE: Afrobeat Takes on Wallstreet

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Channel: OkayAfrica · 2012 · Music

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Seun Kuti and 4 generations of musicians stand up for the people, against the corrupt rulers of the world, comparing the corrupt government of Nigeria to that of the Wall Street control of the US government. "Everywhere we are going through the same shit, in varying degrees...now bring it to the West with your complicated bullshit: prime mortgages, derivatives. They fucking stole the money man: money just doesn't disappear.

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