Why Black Man Dey Suffer (1971)

Released in 1971 and credited to Fela, Africa 70, and Ginger Baker, Why Black Man Dey Suffer is an early afrobeat statement that turns the genre's grooves toward questions of race, history, and oppression. The collaboration with the British rock drummer marks one of the scene's first crossings into the international rock world. It belongs to the formative wave of records that set afrobeat's political tone.