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Mozambique: Musician with a Cause

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique, Arts & Culture, Citizen Media, Music, Youth
Ruben Mutekane playing Ndjerendje and singing in Maputo, Mozambique (September, 2012). Video by Miguel Mangueze [1]

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 [1] by Miguel Mangueze (@FotoMangueze [2])…

Mutekane sings a song in the xichangana language on social inequalities in Mozambique, which Francisco Chuquela (@chuquela [3]) has partly translated [4]on Facebook: “the rich live in our country and we suffer, even when they kill they are not arrested because they pay.”