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Thomas Mapfumo
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“Justice must be seen to be done. We have a duty as musicians to sing about what is really happening in the lives of our people.”


He is his country’s greatest living musician, with a catalog of recordings rivaling Dylan’s in both size and cultural impact. The legendary “Lion of Zimbabwe” — father of the electric mbira music that inspired the hugely popular “Chimurenga” protest songs during Zimbabwe's struggle for independence — now lives in exile. Again at odds with the regime of his beloved homeland, Mapfumo now rallies his people against the tyranny of Mugabe.
 

Singing mostly in Shona, with the mbira still deep in the mix (used to invoke ancestor spirits during Shona ritual), his fiery voice has matured into a powerful call to arms, intimate in its understanding of the human cost of war. The music is a poised, relaxed groove, with unfailing hooks and hypnotic refrains, full of the stately grace and moral authority of the great Mapfumo.

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Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 1 Kuvarira Mukati/Suffer In Silence    Real Audio Player logo
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 2 Ndogura Masango/Hitting the Road
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 3 Mukadzi Wangu/My Wife
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 4 Handimbotya/I’m Not Afraid
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 5 Marudzi Nemarudzi/Different Races
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 6 Zvakuwana/It’s Payback Time
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 7 Ndodya Marasha/I’m Mad As Hell
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 8 Hende Baba/Let’s Go, Father
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 9 Zvirwere/Diseases
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 10 Vanofira Chiiko?/What Are They Dying For?
Windows Media Player Real Audio Player 11 Pasi Hariguti/The Earth’s Hunger Is Insatiable
 




 
 

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