Exiled Zimbabwean Musician Thomas Mapfumo Retires Africa Zimbabwe
After five decades on the stage, one of the continent's great musical innovators, and an outspoken critic of corrupt politics, has taken his last bow - in exile, because it was too dangerous to go home.after more than a decade in 2018
, following Mugabe's removal from power by his own soldiers. Staged in Harare before thousands of Zimbabweans who had not seen him play live since the early 2000s, it ended as the sun was coming up. But when his brother Lancelot, a long-serving percussionist in his band, died in 2022, Mapfumo said he couldn't come back to bury him as he feared for his life.
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