The lyric of "Everything Scatter" portrays Nigeria’s conflicted society through metaphor and microcosm. Singing the song in the manner of a story teller with some history behind it, Fela presents the Nigerian society like a moving public bus driving past Kalakuta Republic. A passenger in the bus representing the establishment view, makes a remark condemning Fela and members of Kalakuta as: ‘hooligans’, ‘hemp smokers’, ‘prostitutes’, and ‘political non-starters’. Another man who, like countless of Fela’s teaming admirers, sees him as: ‘Black President’, Chief Priest, Mystic man (Abami in Yoruba language), challenges the establishment man. Meanwhile, the debate spreads among all the passengers in the bus - those echoing government opinion of Fela and those against. The result is big commotion in the bus. Everything Scatter.
“Uniform start to yab,” sings Fela, “(saying) bring me the Fela people, make I lock am and charge am for court, before I shut am big mouth for am, before I hand am to mosquito.” Fela’s use of “mosquito” refers to the malarial swamps close to which some Nigerian prisons were sited and also to that name being used to describe policemen.
Successive military regimes in Nigeria, in their attempt to silence Fela’s bold criticisms of the establishment labelled him a trouble maker. Fela however would not relent in his criticism of the corruption and colonial mentality of the establishment - the end result! Everything Scatter.
Негізгі бет Музыка Fela Ransome Kuti - Everything Scatter (Rere Run)
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