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Kadongo Kamu from Uganda

Posted February 5th, 2008 at 12:47 am (UTC-4)
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Kadongo Kamu, or ‘one guitar music’, is a style of narrative song from central Uganda that dates back to the early 1950s. Over the last fifty years the genre has gone through many transformations, but has never strayed from its central purpose: communicating traditional wisdom and morals through anecdotes, stories, and social commentary. The earliest […]

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