The song spoke of the man who had been in jail for 27 years, who “left his wife and his children for the sake of Africa”. I remember Majek Fashek’s Free Mandela, from his album I and I Experience. My initial education on South Africa, apartheid and Nelson Mandela was from the music of the day. There was no CNN/cable television for us until the mid to late 90s, no internet, no news breaking globally in an instant. As a child of the 80s in Nigeria, we didn’t have political programmes dedicated to the struggle – it would have been hard and perhaps a bit hypocritical, seeing as we were under the thumb of the military for the greater part of 1980-1990. How will I remember Nelson Mandela? It will be in the music that was made about him and his role in the struggle to smash apartheid. English: Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, Gauteng, on (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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