The lyrics portray Nigeria’s conflicted society through the metaphor of argument supposedly taking place among the passengers on a bus passing Kalakuta.
Fela’s use of ‘mosquito’ refers to the fact that prisons were sometimes deliberately sited near malarial swamps.

The lyrics portray Nigeria’s conflicted society through the metaphor of argument supposedly taking place among the passengers on a bus passing Kalakuta.
Fela’s use of ‘mosquito’ refers to the fact that prisons were sometimes deliberately sited near malarial swamps.