Freedom is coming

The English version of this groundbreaking collection of powerful South African song of protest and praise was released in 1984. It contained material from two previously released booklets in Sweden collected, compiled and edited by Anders Nyberg and recorded by the songgroup Fjedur.

It has since become an international standard. To quote just one random Customer Comment from the net;

"Children here in Australia love this volume. I use the tape as an introduction and find it much easier for them to learn the songs this way. They need to "pick up" the particular sound of African singing and although your tape is recorded by a Swedish choir they interpret the African sound authentically, I feel. I am about to teach them to a group of young students from Asia studying English in Australia."

Asian students in Australia learning an European language through African songs...

It reminds me of an instant when we in Fjedur performed this music on a pavement in Bronx, New York. Afterwards a man came up from the audience and told us that he had just returned from Eastern Europe. This was just after the wall had fallen and he had been in Estonia and heard the South African songs of freedom being sung in the streets calling for the liberation of Estonia. The corners of the earth stitched together by song; someone in Bronx, the West, had in the East heard the songs of the South sung by the singers from the North...

* Freedom is coming

* Asikhatali (It Doesn't Matter)
* Gabi (Praise the Father)
* Ipharadisi
* Singabahambayo (On Earth an Army is Marching)
* Siph’amandla (O God, Give Us Power)
* Akanamandla (He Has No Power)
* Bamthatha (He's Locked Up)
* Vula, Botha (Open, Botha)
* Shumayela (Come, Let Us Preach)
* Nkosi, Nkosi (Lord, Have Mercy)
* Siyahamba (We Are Marching)
* Haleluya! Pelo Tsa Rona (Haleluya! We Sing Your Praises)
* Thuma Mina (Send Me Jesus)
* We shall not give up the fight

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