Banning Eyre: 1 book
Lion Songs
Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career—from...
