South Africa: Madala Kunene Tells His Story Through His Guitars

The maestro's music is tied to his lifelong connections to the places in the city where he was born and raised, learnt to play his beloved instruments and still makes a living.

The Durban suburb of Cato Manor (Umkhumbane) in KwaZulu-Natal still bears many reminders of the struggles over the future of this historic working-class shantytown. Everywhere there is palpable evidence of its violent history of dispossession, loss and resistance.

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