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Lion Songs

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Ngoma Yarira (The Drums Are Sounding); Pamuromo Chete (It’s Only Talk); Pfumvu Pa ruzevha (Hardship In The Reserves); Butsu Mutandrika (Oversized boots); Shumba (The Lion); Chauya Chirizevha (Rural Life Is Back); Nyoka Musango (Snake In The Forest); Corruption; Jojo; Bukatiende (Wake Up Let’s Go); Ndiyani Waparadza Musha (Who Has Destroyed My Home?); Marina Nzara (You Have Harvested Hunger); Ndangariro (Remembering).

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Article: Album Review

Thomas Mapfumo: Lion Songs

Read "Lion Songs" reviewed by James Nadal


The constant political and social unrest in Zimbabwe stemming from its oppressed period of colonization when it was wrongly known as Rhodesia, spawned chimurenga music--the music of struggle and resistance. The artist who personified this musical activism is Thomas Mapfumo, the Lion of Zimbabwe. His unwavering dedication to this movement since the 1970's is the subject ...


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