| Release Date: | 21/11/2025 |
| Format: | 4LP Colour |
| Label: | Knitting Factory Records |
| Catalogue Number: | KFR1001-8 |
‘The Best Of The Black President’ is a 13-track guide to Fela Kuti’s massive and manifold creative career. Fela was a musician, arranger, producer, political radical and outlaw and the originator of Afrobeat.
This is the first time the complete compilation is available on vinyl. It is a 4LP set, with updated cover art, in a hardbound book jacket and printed inner sleeves. The individual LPs are pressed on red, green, blue and yellow discs.
This edition features a Ludo game board as the back cover and comes with a perforated set of game pieces, dice and instructions on how to play.
The definitive survey of Fela Kuti’s epic body of work, including the songs ‘Zombie’, ‘Water No Get Enemy’ and ‘Lady’.
This album follows the release of the 12-episode podcast on the life and legacy of Fela, ‘Fela Kuti: Fear No Man’.
The package also includes an essay about Fela’s massive and lasting impact by the host of ‘Fela Kuti: Fear No Man’, Jad Abumrad.
Tracklist
LP1
Lady
Shakara (Oloje)
Gentleman
Water No Get Enemy
LP2
Zombie
Sorrow Tears and Blood
No Agreement
Roforofo Fight
LP3
Shuffering And Shmiling
Coffin For Head Of State
ITT
LP4
Army Arrangement
O.D.O.O.