Jad Abumrad

kind of ladies who lunch type of situation, very quickly turns into a full-fledged union.

And that becomes thousands of women marching in the streets to protest the taxation policies of the British government.

And the king, the alake, as he was called, who was backed by the British,

And they essentially lay siege to his palace.

So if you can imagine 10,000 women from the markets basically encamped day and night at his palace and he's trapped inside and he can't leave.

And they sing, talk about music as a weapon, they sing these abuse songs to him.

And we found hundreds of these songs in Fumalhah Ransom Kuti's archives that she had handwritten.

She had phonetically spelled in English the Yoruba lyrics, and we got a choir to translate them and sing them for us.

But there are hilarious songs calling his manhood small, saying that they're going to unleash a lake of fire from their... Generals.

Yeah, there you go.

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.