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Robben Island Singers

By Kari Lydersen

Let’s go, let’s go and fight; we don’t know where we’re going, but fight we must,” sing Grant Shezi, Muntu Nxumalo and Thembinkosi Sithole, harmonizing around a microphone in a high school auditorium on Chicago’s West Side. “Let us take over, take over, they take our country and give us homelands, let us take over, take over, take our country the… return to article

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