This episode is dedicated to Troy Davis. RIP.

1. Strange Fruit - Nina Simone
2. Strange Fruit - Common feat. John Legend
3. Mission of Music - Gokh-Bi System
4. Kalakuta Show - Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
5. Victory - Blitz the Ambassador
6. Pure - Kevin Mambo
7. Duces - Kid Kiddo
8. Health Care for Profit - Sandra Izsadore
9. Happiness - Kid Kiddo
10. Strong Will Continue - Nas & Damian Marley

Can You Hear - J.Period and Nneka
Wake up Africa - J.Period and Nneka
Third World - Jerry Jheto
Red Bandana - Game
Upside Down live - ABD (Interview with Matt Sargis from ABD)
Original Sufferhead - ABD
Mi No Like - ABD
Old September - ABD
DubVersion - ABD
Sorrow Tears and Blood - ABD
Sorrow Tears and Blood - Fela Kuti
Halilujah - Sandra Izsadore

Sandra Izsadore's music video "Health Care for Profit

Song Selections

1. Walking - Nneka w/J.Period
2. Tribal War - Damian Marley & Nas
3. Louder - Boundzound
4. Trouble sleep yanga wake em - Fela Kuti
5. Soldier of love - Sade
6. Fela Anikulalapo-Kuti - Sandra Izsadore

Song Selections

1. Maxine - Kardinal Offishall
2. look and laugh - Fela Kuti
3. free fall - Rocky Dawuni
4. every day - Boundzound
5. health care for profit - Sandra Izsadore

Guest - Eric McClure - The Abner Experience

Song Selections:

1. Abner - Eric McClure
2. Terian Gulabi Buliyan - A.G Kang
3. Samba Tranquille - Thievery Corporation
4. No Possible - DJ Joystick Jays Remix
5. Health Care for Profit - Sandra Izsadore
6. Gentleman - Fela Kuti - Ka-Naan

Song Selections:

1. Riot In Lagos - Toby Foyeh & Orchestra Africa
2. Nigeria - Sandra Izsadore
3. V.I.P Fela Kuti
4. Health Care for Profit - Sandra Izsadore

Introduction of single "Health Care for Profit" from upcoming CD entitled "Nigeria"

Song Selections

1. Health Care for Profit - Sandra Izsadore
2. Mama Afrika - Akon
3. Everything Scatter - Fela Kuti
4. White Collar Criminal - Midnite
5. I can't wait - Akon

Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria into a middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers. His brothers, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti both medical doctors, are well known in Nigeria.

Fela was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music. While there he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a style of music that he would later call afrobeat. The style was a fusion of African jazz and funk with West African highlife. In 1960, Fela married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor, with whom he would have three children (Femi, Yeni, and Sola). In 1963, Fela moved back to Nigeria, re-formed Koola Lobitos and trained as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. He played for some time with Dr. Victor Olaiya and his All Stars. In 1969, Fela took the band to the United States. While there, Fela discovered the Black Power movement through Sandra Smith (now Izsadore)—a partisan of the Black Panther Party—which would heavily influence his music and political views and renamed the band Nigeria ’70. Soon, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was tipped off by a promoter that Fela and his band were in the US without work permits. The band then performed a quick recording session in Los Angeles that would later be released as The ’69 Los Angeles Sessions.

Fela and his band, renamed Africa '70', returned to Nigeria. He then formed the Kalakuta Republic, a commune, a recording studio, and a home for many connected to the band that he later declared independent from the Nigerian state. Fela set up a nightclub in the Empire Hotel, named the Afro-Spot and then the Afrika Shrine, where he performed regularly. Fela also changed his middle name to Anikulapo (meaning "he who carries death in his pouch"), stating that his original middle name of Ransome was a slave name. The recordings continued, and the music became more politically motivated. Fela's music became very popular among the Nigerian public and Africans in general. In fact, he made the decision to sing in Pidgin English so that his music could be enjoyed by individuals all over Africa, where the local languages spoken are very diverse and numerous. As popular as Fela's music had become in Nigeria and elsewhere, it was also very unpopular with the ruling government, and raids on the Kalakuta Republic were frequent. During 1972 Ginger Baker recorded Stratavarious with Fela appearing alongside Bobby Gass.

In 1977 Fela and the Afrika ’70 released the hit album Zombie, a scathing attack on Nigerian soldiers using the zombie metaphor to describe the methods of the Nigerian military. The album was a smash hit with the people and infuriated the government, setting off a vicious attack against the Kalakuta Republic, during which one thousand soldiers attacked the commune. Fela was severely beaten, and his elderly mother was thrown from a window, causing fatal injuries. The Kalakuta Republic was burned, and Fela's studio, instruments, and master tapes were destroyed. Fela claimed that he would have been killed if it was not for the intervention of a commanding officer as he was being beaten. Fela's response to the attack was to deliver his mother's coffin to the Dodan Barracks in Lagos, General Olusegun Obasanjo's residence, and to write two songs, "Coffin for Head of State" and "Unknown Soldier," referencing the official inquiry that claimed the commune had been destroyed by an unknown soldier.

Fela and his band then took residence in Crossroads Hotel as the Shrine had been destroyed along with his commune. In 1978 Fela married 27 women, many of whom were his dancers, composers, and singers to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Kalakuta Republic. Later, he was to adopt a rotation system of keeping only twelve simultaneous wives. The year was also marked by two notorious concerts, the first in Accra in which riots broke out during the song "Zombie," which led to Fela being banned from entering Ghana. The second was at the Berlin Jazz Festival after which most of Fela's musicians deserted him, due to rumours that Fela was planning to use the entirety of the proceeds to fund his presidential campaign.

Despite the massive setbacks, Fela was determined to come back. He formed his own political party, which he called Movement of the People. In 1979 he put himself forward for President in Nigeria's first elections for more than a decade but his candidature was refused. At this time, Fela created a new band called Egypt 80 and continued to record albums and tour the country. He further infuriated the political establishment by dropping the names of ITT vice-president Moshood Abiola and then General Olusegun Obasanjo at the end of a hot-selling 25-minute political screed titled "I.T.T. (International Thief-Thief)."

In 1984, he was again attacked by the military government, who jailed him on a dubious charge of currency smuggling. His case was taken up by several human-rights groups, and after 20 months, he was released from prison by General Ibrahim Babangida. On his release he divorced his 12 remaining wives, saying that "marriage brings jealousy and selfishness." Once again, Fela continued to release albums with Egypt 80, made a number of successful tours of the United States and Europe and also continued to be politically active. In 1986, Fela performed in Giants Stadium in New Jersey as part of the Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope concert, sharing the bill with Bono, Carlos Santana, and the Neville Brothers. In 1989, Fela & Egypt 80 released the anti-apartheid "Beasts of No Nation" album that depicts on its cover U.S. President Ronald Reagan, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha with fangs dripping blood.

His album output slowed in the 1990s, and eventually he stopped releasing albums altogether. In 1993 he and four members of the Afrika 70 Organisation were arrested for murder. The battle against military corruption in Nigeria was taking its toll, especially during the rise of dictator Sani Abacha. Rumours were also spreading that he was suffering from an illness for which he was refusing treatment. On 3 August 1997, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, already a prominent AIDS activist and former Minister of Health, stunned the nation by announcing his younger brother's death a day earlier from Kaposi's sarcoma brought on by AIDS. (Their younger brother Beko was in jail at this time at the hand of Abacha for political activity). More than a million people attended Fela's funeral at the site of the old Shrine compound. A new Africa Shrine has opened since Fela's death in a different section of Lagos under the supervision of his son Femi Kuti.

Song selections:

1. Kalakuta Show
2. Colonial Mentality
3. Just like that

Sandra's guest - Eric McClure

Song selections

1. Mon Amour, Ma Cherie - Amadou and Mariam
2. Kar Kar Madison - Boubacar Traore
3. Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Eric Bibb
4. Ssbari - Baba Djan
5. Red Licorice - Eric McLure
6. Nigeria w/Issac Miller - Sandra Izsadore

Special Guest Mike Nice

Tracks

1. Saye Mogo Bana - Issa Bagayogo
2. Kalicom - Julien Jacob
3. Tomorrow - Mike Nice
4. Nigeria - Sandra Izsadore
5. Moosho Blue - Sandra Izsadore
6. Train feat. Mike Nice - Sandra Izsadore
7. One for Senegal - The Pleb
8. Look - Sandra Izsadore
9. Healthcare for Profit - Sandra Izsadore

1. Nigeria
2. Bakup feat. Yum
3. I Don't Know w/Mike Nice
4. Let it Rain feat. Yum
5. Free to go - KidKiddo feat. Aleta
6. Closer to my Dream - KidKiddo
7. Rally around the World