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  2. Category:Songs about Africa - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Songs about Africa" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Africa (Toto song)

  3. Africa (Toto song) - Wikipedia

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    "Africa" is a song by American rock band Toto, the tenth and final track on their fourth studio album Toto IV (1982). It was the second single from the album released in Europe in June 1982 and the third in the United States in October 1982 through Columbia Records .

  4. Meadowlands (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Meadowlands" is an anti-apartheid song composed in 1956 by Strike Vilakazi. [1] It was written in reaction to the forced relocation of black South Africans from Sophiatown, to the new township of Meadowlands.

  5. 6 inspiring Black protest songs, from 'Strange Fruit' to ...

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    The song also gives nuance to the dire realities for people of low-income Black communities, where crime isn’t an innate trait but frequently a means for survival: “I ain’t never did a crime ...

  6. Music of the African diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Music of the African diaspora is a sound created, produced, or inspired by Black people, including African music traditions and African popular music as well as the music genres of the African diaspora, including some Caribbean music, Latin music, Brazilian music and African-American music. Music of the African diaspora was mostly refined and ...

  7. African-American music - Wikipedia

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    Even more popular among black people, and with more crossover appeal, was album-oriented soul in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which revolutionized African-American music. The genre's intelligent and introspective lyrics, often with a socially aware tone, were created by artists such as Marvin Gaye in What's Going On , and Stevie Wonder in ...

  8. Dubul' ibhunu - Wikipedia

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    The song originates in the struggle against apartheid when it was first sung to protest the Afrikaner-dominated apartheid government of South Africa. [5] Supporters of the song see it as a song that articulates an important part of South Africa's history, [6] [7] is an important part of political discourse, [8] [9] and that its meaning has been ...

  9. Music in the movement against apartheid - Wikipedia

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    A number of South African "Freedom Songs" had musical origins in makwaya, or choir music, which combined elements of Christian hymns with traditional South African musical forms. The songs were often short and repetitive, using a "call-and-response" structure. [53]