Even more than its predecessors, Nigerian Wood is an album of pride and love. Pride is the very essence of Yoruba thought, as defined by Fela Kuti and proudly taken up by Keziah since the BLACK ORPHEUS album. The pride of the Yoruba, an ancestral people of wisdom and knowledge, who very early on conceived of a mystical system of understanding the world (human, plant, mineral and cosmic). A warrior people, the Yoruba do not hesitate to fight or choose exile when their values and freedom are challenged.
In its broadest sense, love is, finally, the will to communicate what one thinks one knows to others; it is the union of humanity in knowledge, metaphorically transcending historical and geographical boundaries.
Recorded for the most part at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York, this fifth opus radiates a spectacular energy.