Zombie
Context
Title track (12 min 26) of the album released in Nigeria in 1976 on Coconut, then in the United Kingdom in 1977 on Creole, "Zombie" compares soldiers to the undead obeying orders. The record's popular success irritated the military regime: about a thousand soldiers subsequently attacked the Kalakuta Republic, Fela's commune, where his mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, died of her injuries.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk.