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Manu Dibango's “Soul Makossa,” the original “Thriller”

Categories: North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Cameroon, U.S.A., Arts & Culture, Music

Alain Mabanckou writes about famed Cameroonian musician [1] (Fr) Manu Dibango, [2]whose Soul Makossa has “all the rhythm, all the atmosphere” of Michael Jackson's album Thriller, although it debuted 11 years before.