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trope about IU colorism now
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** In "Gentleman" he also criticized Africans who try to Westernize themselves into gentlemen and forget their roots.
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* OverlyLongTitle: "Teacher Don't Teach Me No Nonsense", "Don't Worry About My Mouth O (African Message)", "Why Black Man Dey Suffer", "Ikoyi Mentality Versus Mushin Mentality", "Mr Grammarticologylisationalism Is the Boss", "Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am",...
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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--> ''Suffer, suffer, suffer for war/ not your fault to be that''.
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* GenreMashup: Afrobeat started when Fela Kuti mixed American funk and jazz with Ghanian highlife music (which itself is a hybrid genre) and Nigerian tribal chants.
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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Afrobeat started when Fela Kuti mixed American funk and jazz with Ghanian highlife music (which itself is a hybrid genre) and Nigerian tribal chants.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry. Also, I Ate What is not a character trope. Also troping real life
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* IAteWhat: Once, to avoid being tried for possession of a joint, Kuti swallowed the item. The prison guards had a hunch though and waited until the item would come out the natural way. Kuti wasn't born yesterday either: he switched his feces with those of another prisoner and was sent home free from all charges. The incident was recounted in the song "Expensive Shit".
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** "Unknown Soldier" was inspired by the raid on his home, where he was severely beaten.
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** "Unknown Soldier" was inspired by the raid on his home, where he was severely beaten.beaten and his mother was killed after being thrown out of a window.
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* ShoutOut:
** Kuti's drummer Tony Allen is given a shout-out in "Music Is My Radar" by Music/{{Blur}}, with the line "Tony Allen got me dancing".
** Music/PaulMcCartney visited Kuti and his band in 1972 in Lagos, Nigeria and called it one of the best performances he saw in his life. He tried to sign Kuti up on his label and draw more attention to the musician and the troubles of his country, but Kuti distrusted him.
** Music/BrianEno once said he owned more albums by Fela than by any other artist and that he listened to him 'over and over again'.
** Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil says that meeting Fela in Lagos changed his life ('I felt like I was a tree replanted and able to flourish').
** One of the B-sides of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' is called "Fela's Cock".
** One of the outtakes from Music/TalkingHeads' ''Music/RemainInLight'' is called "Fela's Riff".
** The novel ''Literature/BeastsOfNoNation'' - and, by extension, TheFilmOfTheBook (''Film/BeastsOfNoNation'') - is named after one of his albums.
** Kuti's drummer Tony Allen is given a shout-out in "Music Is My Radar" by Music/{{Blur}}, with the line "Tony Allen got me dancing".
** Music/PaulMcCartney visited Kuti and his band in 1972 in Lagos, Nigeria and called it one of the best performances he saw in his life. He tried to sign Kuti up on his label and draw more attention to the musician and the troubles of his country, but Kuti distrusted him.
** Music/BrianEno once said he owned more albums by Fela than by any other artist and that he listened to him 'over and over again'.
** Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil says that meeting Fela in Lagos changed his life ('I felt like I was a tree replanted and able to flourish').
** One of the B-sides of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' ''Music/BloodSugarSexMagik'' is called "Fela's Cock".
** One of the outtakes from Music/TalkingHeads' ''Music/RemainInLight'' is called "Fela's Riff".
** The novel ''Literature/BeastsOfNoNation'' - and, by extension, TheFilmOfTheBook (''Film/BeastsOfNoNation'') - is named after one of his albums.
