Africa: 50 Years of Music

From established stars such as Youssou N'Dour, Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti and Manu Dibango to forgotten acts of past decades, a historic music collection marking 50 years of African self-rule is unsurpassedIn 1960, British prime minister Harold Macmillan gave a speech in Cape Town in which he proclaimed "a wind of change blowing through this continent". Macmillan was speaking after his government had granted independence to one British colony (Ghana) and before it handed independence to its neighb...

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