When boxing promoters announced that Muhammad Ali was to fight George Foreman in Zaire in 1974, record producer Stewart Levine says a lightbulb went off in his head. A close friend of South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, Levine saw immediately that the heavyweight contest represented an unprecedented opportunity to put Africa on the music map. Levine's dream became a glorious reality over three days in 1974, when a music festival staged at the Kinshasa Stadium brought together a galaxy of...
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