Jad Abumrad

And many people that we spoke to point to that moment as a turning point, not just for Fela Kuti, but for Nigeria as a country.

The short version is that a few days after the festival closed, one of Fela's boys, one of the area boys as they were called, gets into a minor traffic conflict with a policeman.

He flees to Fela's compound.

The policeman chases him.

This leads to a standoff.

Fast forward, there are hundreds and then a thousand soldiers surrounding the compound.

Apparently, Fela gets on top of the roof

and he plays zombie down at the police on his saxophone.

And they fly into a rage.

They pour gasoline over everything, and they basically burn the house to the ground.

And they storm the compound while it's burning, and some pretty awful things happen because a lot of Fela's wives were inside the compound at that point.

There was...

some very upsetting sexual violence that occurs.

And that really was kind of the end of a certain era of Fela's career.

Yeah, thank you so much, Terry, for having me on.

Uh, hi, this is Jad.

Hi.

Hey, it's me, Jad.

And I'm Robert.

And today's story started when we bumped into an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.