You say you want a revolution: 25 classic protest songs

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“Sorrow, Tears and Blood” by Fela Kuti

The title track of Kuti’s 1977 album, this song was written in response to the 1976 Soweto Uprising, during which thousands of South African students protested the forced teaching of Afrikaans, the colonial language of apartheid.


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