In exile, he imagined a different Africa in his music, while being exposed to new realities abroad.
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He embodied a special brand of multiple identities and belief systems, and took them to the world.
Not just a great jazz singer, Sylvia Mdunyelwa was also an activist, educator, broadcaster and actress.
The legendary As-Shams jazz label has released the first of several compilation albums recovered from its archive.
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.
