Insight: Music
Malawi's Lazarus Chigwandali & his banjo are taking over the world!
Madonna called him a 'powerful voice of a new generation'
23 June 2019 - 00:05
A year ago this month, in a small church in Malawi, the congregation listened to a sermon about how all men are equal. A quiet man in jeans and white shirt rose to play a song. He began timidly, sitting at the front of the hall, head bowed over his guitar. But then, a minute into his performance, he stood and began to dance, knees buckling, foot tapping, voice rising, leading the congregation in a grand, euphoric chorus...
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