Jad Abumrad

To overwhelm him.

Really raunchy, hard-hitting lyrics.

And they would sing them one after the other.

And Fela was with her, we think.

And so it's interesting to think of his later music, that abuse singing that he would direct at the government.

Maybe he learned it from her.

They strip naked, which in many traditions around the world and certainly in West Africa is a kind of spiritual curse or a hex of some sort.

It's essentially sort of wielding the spiritual power of women against men and any man that looks upon them is considered to be cursed.

And so they stand up in this very defiant gesture and

And the British – and we read the colonial diaries that were written at that time and letters that were flying back and forth.

They were really scared that if they come in and meet that symbolic protest with actual violence, it would unleash forces that they could not control.

And so they decide to basically sneak the king out of the palace and abdicate the throne.

Right.

And so it is one of the first colonial revolts prior to the African independence movement that actually was successful.

And in some small way, it sort of seeded the ground for the African independence movement.

And Fela was there.

Well, yes and no.

There are – you will find people who know the story.

But more often than not, what we found is that people would refer to her simply as Fela's mother.

So she has been reduced a bit because – I mean I think this revolt is one of the great – I mean it's one of the fiercest things I've ever encountered.