"For an artist as prolific and famous as Hugh Masekela, it is remarkable that the music and story of Live in Lesotho has remained buried for so long. On 28th December 1980, Masekela together with Miriam Makeba staged an unprecedented stadium-filled concert in Lesotho, an event that deeply challenged and disturbed apartheid South Africa’s oppressive fabric. It also uplifted a crowd of more than 75,000 South Africans and their fellow Southern African revelers. This recording evidences an extraordinary confluence of experiences linking music, defiance, exile, and reconnection. At the time South Africa’s front line neighbors Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, and Mozambique gave safe haven to South African volunteers going into exile to join organizations of the liberation movement. ..."
Africa is a Country: Music is the weapon
Trumpeter Hugh Masekela’s 1980 protest concert, Live in Lesotho, reissued on vinyl (Audio)
Live in Lesotho (Audio)
YouTube: Part Of A Whole (Live In Lesotho), Stimela (Live in Lesotho - Live)
2016 August: The Chisa Years: 1965-1975 (Rare and Unreleased), 2018 November: Jazz on 45 Vol. 5 Mixape – Hugh Masekela Special Edition
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