NKOSI SIKELE'L IAFRIKA
Created on 08/09/2003Latest update on 18/11/2024
Artist: Sol Plaatje
Author: Enoch Sontonga
Label: Zonophone
Year: 1923
Black South African nationalist, cut in London with Sylvia Colenza on piano. In Zulu language (Sotho); means: God Bless Africa. Written in 1897 and in 1912 sung (in Xhosa by Enoch Sontonga) as hymn during the founding ceremony for the ANC (African National Congress). Therefore considered to be dangerous. Zonophone didn't promote it. Became South Africa's national anthem with additional verses in Afrikaans and English.
Covers:
- 1962:
Gideon Nxumalo [with Kippie Moeketsi and Dudu Pukwana on LP Jazz Fantasia and under the South African censor radar]
- 1987:
Thuli Dumakude [as The Funeral: September 25, 1977 in film Cry Freedom]
- 1988:
- 1990:
- 1995:
- 2000:
