Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe

Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made ZimbabweLike 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 careerfrom early performances of rock 'n' roll tunes to later creating a new genre based on traditional Zimbabwean music, including the sacred mbira, and African and

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