Today’s program features an interview with Banning Eyre of Afropop Worldwide, whose new book “Lion Song – Thomas Mapfumo and the music that made Zimbabwe” Duke University Press) is about the great Zimbabwean band leader and social/political commentator whose rise to prominence began during Zimbabwe’s struggle for Independence in the 1970’s and whose music shines a harsh light on political corruption of all stripes and draws deep on his cultural Shona roots. banningeyre.com
