From the vault: 2019
Femi Kuti on the importance of protest music: "There will always be a fight, so that’s why it’s always important for music and the arts to be at the forefront of fighting this… If we don’t have our voices in the forefront of suppressing evil, then evil prevails.”
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Hugh Masekela – Bring Back Nelson Mandela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/hugh-masekela-bring-back-nelson-mandela/
“Bring Back Nelson Mandela” is one of Masekela’s composition at the time of apartheid in South Africa, as he was a clear anti-apartheid activist.
Also known as “Bring Him Back Home“, the song is an anthemic anti-apartheid protest song written by South African musician Hugh Masekela.
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Ismael Isaac & les Frères Keita – Nelson Mandela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/ismael-isaac-freres-keita-nelson-mandela/
Anti-Apartheid reggae song from Côte d’Ivoire, from album “Liberté” released in 1986, by Ismael Isaac & les Frères Keita.
“It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.”
—Nelson Mandela
Music is a Weapon
https://amf.didiermary.fr/music-is-a-weapon/
Music is a weapon of the future.
Music is the weapon of the progressives.
Music is the weapon of the givers of life.
As far as Africa is concerned music cannot be for enjoyment.
Music has to be for revolution.
Music is the weapon.
—Fela Kuti
My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
—Bob Marley
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Johnny Clegg (With Nelson Mandela) – Asimbonanga (1999)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nelson-mandela-johnny-clegg-asimbonanga/
Nelson Mandela joins Johnny Clegg on stage as he opens his show with the classic Asimbonanga.
Asimbonanga (we have not seen him)
Asimbonang’ umandela thina (we have not seen Mandela)
Laph’ekhona (in the place where he is)
Laph’ehleli khona (in the place where he is kept)
"You don't expect the people who came to invade us to write the truth about us."
— Miriam Makeba
Fela, Music & Revolution
https://amf.didiermary.fr/qotd-fela-kuti-music-revolution/
In Africa, music cannot be for enjoyment.
Music has to be for revolution.
Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti and the Afrika 70 released “Colonial Mentality” in 1977 following an attack on the Kalakuta Republic by the Nigerian army. In it, he urges unity among African people and the pursuit of genuine independence.
Approximately 1,000 Nigerian soldiers surrounded […]
