By the early 1970s, the wave of independence sweeping across most of #Africa had, in turn, produced a variety of forward-thinking popular music, from Nigerian Afrobeat to Congolese soukous, which combined elements of jazz, rock and funk with indigenous forms. At the same time, the politically aware and musically experimental counter-culture of the West had begun to spill over into the Third World, spawning a number of Afro-rock hybrids, especially in southern Africa, where the Zamrock movement in Zambia and the early forms of chimurenga in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) made use of African traditional sounds and rock instrumentation to express a newfound sense of political and cultural awareness. rollingstone.co.za/artists/item/2820-everybody-loves-freedom-the-rediscovery-of-national-wake
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