4LP vinyl boxset – pressed on opaque red, green, blue and yellow vinyl housed in printed inner sleeves with disco holes within a hardbound book jacket. The back cover is a Ludo board and the package contains Ludo game pieces, dice and instructions on how to play.
The Best of the Black President is the 13 track guide to Fela
Kuti’s massive and manifold creative career. Fela was a musician,
arranger, producer, political radical, outlaw and the originator of
Afrobeat. This is the first time the complete compilation is available on
vinyl. It is a 4 LP set, with updated cover art in a hardbound book
jacket and printed inner sleeves. The individual LPs are pressed on
red (sides A/B), green (sides C/D), blue (sides E/F) and yellow (sides
G/H) vinyl. This edition features a Ludo game board as the back cover
and comes with a perforated set of game pieces, dice, and
instructions on how to play. Limited edition of 3000 for the world
The release of this special edition coincides with the 12 episode podcast on the life and legacy of Fela, Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, produced by the Obamas and hosted by Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton’s America). The series features dozens of interviews including Burna Boy, Paul McCartney, Questlove, Ayo Edebiri, David Byrne, Santigold, and President Obama himself. It was initially released on Audible on 9/15/25 and had a wide release across all podcast platforms on 10/15/25
