Papa Wemba was one of the most active ambassadors of Congolese urban music on the global stage. He did this by fusing international musical styles with authentic Congolese grooves.
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It took ages for one of African jazz’s hidden masterpieces to be reissued. Still today, four decades later, 1976’s ‘African Songbird’ tells volumes about the politics of the time.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor in Cultural Studies and English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Professor Emeritus, Social Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of American History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Ethnomusicology, Kent State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ethnomusicology, Stellenbosch University
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Ph.D. fellow in European Research Council (ERC) project "Apartheid- The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990", led by Prof. Louise Bethlehem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Senior Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Lecturer, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies, University of Strathclyde
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Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor (Archaeology), University of South Africa
