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Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas fumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. fumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career—from early performances of rock 'n' roll tunes to later creating a new genre based on traditional Zimbabwean music, including the sacred mbira, and African and Western pop—is a metaphor for Zimbabwe's evolution from colony to independent nation. Lion Songs is an authoritative biography of fumo that narrates the life and career of this creative, complex, and iconic figure. Banning Eyre ties the arc of fumo's career to the history of Zimbabwe. The genre fumo created in the 1970s called chimurenga, or "struggle" music, challenged the Rhodesian government—which banned his music and jailed him—and became important to Zimbabwe achieving independence in 1980. In the 1980s and 1990s fumo's international profile grew along with his sition to Robert Mugabe's dictatorship. Mugabe had been a hero of the revolution, but fumo’s criticism of his regime led authorities and loyalists to turn on the singer with threats and intimidation. Beginning in 2000, fumo and key band and family members left Zimbabwe. Many of them, including fumo, now reside in Eugene, Oregon. A labor of love, Lion Songs is the product of a twenty-five-year friendship and professional relationship between Eyre and fumo that demonstrates fumo's musical and political importance to his nation, its freedom struggle, and its culture.

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