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ETHIO-JAZZ: Attempted assassinations, decades of censorship and an unlikely French ‘hero’. How Ethiopian Jazz survived and thrived after so many years of repression.
September 11th 1974. Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, is alive with the sounds of youth, culture and hope. But this wouldn’t last. The music has stopped and the sun has risen, the whole country about to witness a seismic, soviet change. Has the music stopped forever?
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