Like 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 career--from...
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Fela: Kalakuta Notes is an evocative account of Fela Kuti--the Afrobeat superstar who took African music into the arena of direct action. With his antiestablishment songs, he dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism and the down-trodden Nigerian masses, or "sufferheads." In the 1970s, the British/Ghanaia...
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An outlaw on the run, a ranger tracking his brother, a rancher gifted with horses--hard men living hard and dangerous lives--lose their hearts to strong-willed, warm-hearted women in these sizzling tales of romance and desire on the western frontier. Bundle includes The Horseman, The Ranger and the ...
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