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I get my money
Plan my plan finish
Start to go for market
Start to go for shopping
Before I reach market nko o?
Government show don enter
My plan don spoil o
Government show don enter
My plan don spoil o
[Chorus]
Overtake don overtake overtake!
Ah! I beg let us get down
Into another underground spiritual game
I beg, after my “pass o, pass o”
You go dey help me end am with “wen”
Because them go hear wen, yeah!
Pass o, pass o, pass o, pass o…
[Chorus]
Wen!
When they want to call, eh
When they want to call, eh
When they want to call Nigerian government
Them give am name, “Federal Military Government”
(Federal Military Government!)
For Libya dem give am name, “Liberation Council”
(Liberation Council!)
For Liberia dem give am name, “Redemption Council”
(Redemption Council!)
For Zaire dem give am name, “Revolutionary Council”
(Revolutionary Council!)
Them get different different names
For different different governments
But the correct name for them
Na “soldier go, soldier come”
[Chorus]
Soldier go, soldier come!
Soldier go, soldier come
Federal Military Government
Libya Liberation Council
Liberia Redemption Council
Zaire Revolutionary Council
Soldier go, soldier come
Soldier go, soldier come
When Obasanjo and Yar’Adua
Chop belly full and go
Them put civilian friends for there
Them shout, “Second republic!”
People wey no know dey happy
People wey know them dey look
Them baptize the civilian government
Them name am federal government
Me I know by their name
Me I call them “soldier put, soldier go”
[Chorus]
Soldier go, soldier come!
Soldier come, soldier go!
Na so our lives for Africa dey roll
Since them say we get independence
The civilian government wey them dey
Na soldier dey protect them
When our lives roll small
He go go knock head for wall
When our lives roll small
He go go knock head for tree
When our lives roll small
He go go knock head for stone
When I see say our lives dey roll
Like one yeye ball
Wey one yeye wind
Dey blow from one yeye corner
I put my mouth for song:
“Kalakuta Show”
[Chorus]
Yeye rolling!
Gaga gugu, gaga gugu!
Woko woko, woko woko!
Look the man he dey waka
Hungry dey run for him face
I put my mouth for song:
“Mr. Follow Follow”
[Chorus]
Yeye rolling!
Mr. Follow Follow!
Mr. Follow Follow, make you open eye
Mr. Follow Follow, make you open sense
I put my mouth for song:
“Zombie o, Zombie”
[Chorus]
Yeye rolling!
Zombie o, zombie!
It’s Fela Friday!
Skip James - Crow Jane
In my opinion, the best thing NPR has ever graced the internet with.
Frank Fairfield | The Winding Spring & Nine Pound Hammer
Last September I kicked myself for being out of town when he played a few shows with The Dust Busters and Blind Boy Paxton in NYC.
He’ll be back next Wednesday, but this time at the Bowery as the opening act for Cass McCombs. I have zero interest in seeing Cass McCombs play. This won’t be the first time I go to a show and leave when the headliner comes on.
Gender and Austerity: The Feminization of Economic Crisis Response
Austerity measures are incredibly common in the news and in attempts to control currently faltering economies and are under a lot of fire because of their class-based impacts, but where does austerity have gendered impacts? First off, austerity measures are policy packages aimed at reducing deficits by making large cuts to spending (particularly social spending), benefits (like welfare) and public services (like transportation). Public sector layoffs and tax hikes can also be part of the deal. Here’s a breakdown by the Guardian of what kinds of things faced austerity cuts across Europe in 2010 (from public sector pay cuts in Ireland to closing hospitals and schools in Latvia).
A brief list of some of the ways in which austerity’s impacts have a serious gender component:
- When class is an issue, so is gender. This is because globally women are more likely to live in poverty, have lower incomes, and are less likely to own private property (only 2% of the world’s private property is under female ownership) and private wealth. Austerity measures often lead to the ongoing “feminization” of poverty, driving women further into economic inequality. Women make less than their male counterparts and therefore as a group suffer more from the across the board pay cuts and freezes typical of austerity measures.
- Since the public sector and its employees bear the weight of austerity, it’s worth noting that women are the majority of public sector workers in both Britain and in the United States. In the US, they have made up an even greater percentage of the public sector workers who have lost their jobs and women have been slower to gain jobs than men, furthering gendered economic inequality.
- Women also rely more on welfare programs, which are prime candidates for the austerity guillotines. As are important programs for parental leave and child and elder care - all benefits of which women typically make greater use.
- Education price hikes in the UK have had gendered consequences on university attendance: male school attendance dropped 7 percent in 2012, but female school attendance dropped even more at -10.5%.
- A number of cities across the United States are selectively shutting off street lights at night to cut down their electricity bills. A simple enough solution, but one done with little regard to the notion that crime, particularly rape and sexual assault, is known to rise in poorly lit areas. Shutting off the lights at night makes cities more dangerous places, particularly for women who might be returning home from late shifts.
Recommended reading:
Photo: A woman shouts during an October anti-austerity rally in Athens. Credit: Yiorgos Karahalis/Reuters
- Macleavy, Julie. “A ‘new politics’ of austerity, workfare and gender? The UK coalition government’s welfare reform proposals.“ Cambridge JOurnal of Regions, Economy and Society. November 2011.
- Michalitsch, Gabriele. “Austerity Promotes Gender Hierarchies.” Social Europe Journal. 22 Feb. 2011.
This is really good stuff. Might also be of interest regarding cuts in the UK: Jobs are a feminist issue. So are legal aid, tax and pensions by our columnist @zoesqwilliams
the feminization of poverty is a sad reality
