Word: makuona
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...current government, Mapfumo and his band are now permanently based in the U.S., although only three members of the band were able to perform with him. Stripped of his rich accompaniment, Mapfumo’s rich, expressive voice came across almost plaintively, particularly when he sang, “Makuona here kuti mukomana akatorwa?” (“Did you see that our brother was taken?”) Not all the songs were so mournful: Mapfumo introduced one song about the depredations of alcohol, and how drinking too much had once made him hit his mother...
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