Episode 77: Barry Gilder's Songs and Secrets

From Africa Past & Present Tue Nov 19 2013, 15:54:46

Barry Gilder, South African folk singer and ex-ANC intelligence operative, is the author of Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance. In the interview, he reflects on freedom songs, exile, and armed struggle. Gilder performs his "Matola Song," about a friend killed by an apartheid death squad.  He ends with thoughts on democratic [...]

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