During apartheid, from 1948 to 1994, music emerged as a beacon of hope and a weapon of resistance and protest within South Africa while local artists in exile during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s also ...

In the early 1980s, Nelson Mandela’s name was virtually unknown in the United States. In fact, it was Steve Biko, who died in police custody in South Africa in 1977, who first put the struggles of ...