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Exotique: OffBeat’s Guide to the Jazz Fest’s African & Latin Music

May 1, 1991 by: Gabou Mendy

Sub-Saharan Africa is well represented, along with varied genres of music from the Diaspora and Caribbean.

The first weekend's highlights include one must-see, Thomas Mapfumo, and Loketo. Mapfumo emerged from the liberation war of Zimbabwe with a series of singles, The Chimurenga ("The Struggle") Singles, that left a legacy in the musical history of his country. Using the traditional mbira (spiritual music of the Shona), he metaphorically used the language to enc...

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