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Fela Kuti – Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense (LP Vinyl) Books by splitShops What makes From the MarsReleased in 1986, this was one of Fela's final studio albums before his health declined, making it a particularly charged document of his restless political imagination. The Kalakuta raid he references in "Look and Laugh" wasn't abstract history for him, it was a brutal 1977 event in which soldiers burned his compound and threw his mother from a window, a wound he carried for the rest of his life. Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense sees Fela explaining