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Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle...
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Chuck D, the creative force behind Public Enemy and one of the most outspoken, politically active and controversial rappers in music,...