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Harambe is a song about Unity

The former British colony of Uganda is known perhaps more widely for its political strife than its music or poetry. In the 1970s, the dictator Idi Amin devastated the country with ethnic persecution and economic mismanagement. The East African nation is one of the world’s poorest and has struggled for decades with civil war, corruption and high incidences of HIV. Into this environment, a grassroots cultural movement was born in the early 1990s. This fast-paced documentary, which is narrated...