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I'm a big fan of the late great Nigerian musician and political activist Fela Kuti.

He hated the corrupt government of Nigeria and at one point he walled off his compound and declared it a separate republic called Kalakuta Republic. In response, 1000 Nigerian soldiers stormed the compound, burned it down, beat the residents and threw Fela's mother out a second story window. She died within a month.

After her funeral, he delivered her coffin to the army barrack home of the General Obasanjo, the dictator in charge and later wrote the song "Coffin for Head of State" about the incident.

It was just one of his many, often violent, clashes with the corrupt government he lived under.

I doubt this incident had any symbolic connection to that, but it's still a cool story.

[Mad Dawgg]

"After her funeral, he delivered her coffin to the army barrack home of the General Obasanjo, the dictator in charge and later wrote the song "Coffin for Head of State" about the incident."

Fela Kuti sounds like my kinda patriot!

Can we get him a Hawaiian Birth Certificate?