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Mzwakhe Mbuli CD Review

The album, 'Amandla', celebrates Pan African struggles and Ubuntu

Mzwakhe Mbulu's new album is rounded and whole. The title of the album Amandla is Mbuli's latest work to celebrate the heroes and heroines of the Struggle at "home and abraod".

Amandla is also celebrating Pan African struggles and Ubuntu. Mbuli in his songs is seeking to develop links in Africa, especially countries that supported the national liberation struggle in Southern Africa like Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Angola.

Amandla features songs that were banned by the Apartheid regime and never airplayed. The songs were banned because they were on the side of the oppressed.

The artist is standing alongside those who are celebrating the African National Congress's 100 years of struggle. It is in this context that he has also published a book entitled "The Voice of Reason".

The song titled 'Stalwarts' salutes veterans like former SA president Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe, founder president of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, and Black Consciousness Movement icon Steve Biko.

The 1960 Sharperville Massacre is one of the the historic events that the artist also remembers in his songs.

Other song tracks are Why Tricks, Young Lions, Ukulimala kwenqondo and Imbokodo.

Mbuli also advances the spirit of unity in these songs.

A statement from record company EMI Music reads: "The Amandla CD is dedicated to all people who paid a supreme price for our freedom, this includes those who died in detention".

Mbuli told Sowetan LIVE that his music should be listened to bearing this following statement in mind: "The scientist who is culturally literate - who reads poetry, history, philosophy, fiction, and listens to music - is usually a better scientist than the one involved in his or her subject only".

The CD is available in store and radio stations have started to air it.

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