No time to write those days…
So just posting a photograph and feeling the urge to invite people reading and listening Fela Kuti’s lyrics of “Coffin for a head of State” song, herebelow pasted from the Afrofunk Forum blog. Religion has always been and will remain a tool of oppression, from the Inquisition in Spain and France to colonialism in Asia, Latin America and Africa, from ancient Roma crackdowns on Etruscans and Jews to Native Americans genocide, from Israel to Al-Quaida. Religion does not amount to oppression but religion has always been a mean to oppress.

Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen
Woh! Ahhhhh Ch! Ahhhh! Ch! Ch!
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord
*[CHORUS] AMEN, AMEN, AMEN
By the Grace of Allmighty Lord
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord
By the Grace of Allmighty Lord
Inspiritus Christus, Mass Christus, Mass Christus, Mass Christus,
Allah,u-akbar, Hamud, Salam Alekum, Allah
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord
By the Grace of Allmighty Lord
So I waka waka waka
I go many places
I see my people
Dem dey cry, cry cry
Amen-i (…)
I say I waka-waka-waka-waka, waka-waka-waka
(HORNS response)
I waka any village anywhere in Africa
I waka any village anywhere in Africa
Pastor’s house na ‘im dey fine pass
My people dem dey stay for poor surroundings
Pastor’s dress na ‘im dey clean pass
Be it hard for my people for dem to buy soap
Pastor na ‘im dem give respect pass
And dem dey do bad-bad-bad-bad, bad-bad-bad-bad, bad-bad-bad things
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