Mozambique: Musician with a Cause · Global Voices
Sara Moreira

Ruben Mutekane playing Ndjerendje in Maputo, Mozambique (September, 2012). Video by Miguel Mangueze on Youtube
Ruben Mutekane invented Ndjerendje, a musical instrument that he uses to accompany social intervention songs while singing around Maputo, Mozambique. In the following video by Miguel Mangueze (@FotoMangueze)…
Mutekane sings a song in the xichangana language on social inequalities in Mozambique, which Francisco Chuquela (@chuquela) has partly translatedon Facebook: “the rich live in our country and we suffer, even when they kill they are not arrested because they pay.”