Wax Poetics “Africa Issue” and Other Links

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* I just got the Wax Poetics Africa Issue in the mail.  Though the issue may give the impression that good music stopped being produced in Africa since the 1970s–in part it reads like a tribute issue with articles about Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, the Rail Band, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, Hugh Masekela, Lemi Ghariokwu, […]

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“WE FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM, BUT WE WON DEMOCRACY”

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You can always count on Hugh Masekela to speak frankly. Masekela turned 70 this year. And he still has a lot to say. In London for a concert with the London Symphony Orchestra to mark his birthday, he was interviewed by the BBC.

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