With a story as harrowing as the times he lived in, he was a singular voice in the country’s rich jazz history.
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Her celebration of black life, black beauty and black humanity through her films and music was subversive.
It took ages for one of African jazz’s hidden masterpieces to be reissued. Still today, four decades later, 1976’s ‘African Songbird’ tells volumes about the politics of the time.
