songs about black leaders

[Rico]

Greetings

Im looking for reggae tunes about black leaders.

There must be some around.

Songs about garvey. Lumumba. Black panthers..muhammad ali. Malcolm x...

Do you know some. Regards

[james19]

This will be a long thread....

First one: Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey

[johnnyB]

Bunny & Skitter-Lumumbo
Earl 16-Malcolm X
Watty Burnett-Paul Bogle
Cocoa Tea-Obama
Sizzla-Black Man in a White House

Check the recent Mandela related songs thread too.

[Roman]

johnnyB: Obama is not black. He is as much black as he is white.

Are there any good songs about Idi Amin?

[Jack Johnson]

leaders of black countries - the vibestones springs to mind (new star 7)
the one good thing about idi amin is this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn8QR5n7VaQ

[dan i dubdub]

Prince Buster & The Revolutionaries - Idi Amin 7" - titled after him, rather than a song about him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6hLLsK4XUg

@Rico - check the recent thread about Mandela songs

@Jack Johnson - I couldn't listen to links when I replied, so on the same case there

[Roman]

Jack Johnson & dan i dubdub: thank you ))) What a fuсking killer tune! I am sure there are more good things about Idi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trtu5mij6mM

[Rico]

Thanks for the first tunes

This will be a long thread....

Thats what i hope

Prince Buster & The Revolutionaries - Idi Amin 7" - titled after him, rather than a song about him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6hLLsK4XUg

@Rico - check the recent thread about Mandela songs

The mandela thread is great

Here are a few wich comes to my mind.
Dean Fraser - Idi Amin
halfpint – man of sorrow
Color Red - Christ is Black
Tarrus Riley Shaka Zulu Pickney
Merger - Biko
Dennis alcapone. Muhamad ali
Don covay – rumble in the jungle

There is a scientis Lp with dubs called like some Leaders
http://www.reggaefever.ch/articleDetail ... Id=CD-5139

Bt same like the Idi amin tunes, they are only dubs/riddims.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=43649&p=308757&hilit=biko#p308757
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=43748&p=309445&hilit=mandela#p309445

[Roman]

More great Idi Amin stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqyOWtekuf8

[Rootsitup]

one for the list ..Leroy Lamomba - Sam Sharpe on love bird 7"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sharpe

[Roman]

a song about Idi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOkOhq-gT1Y

[AT2JA]

Them Never Love Poor Marcus - Mighty Diamonds
Biko's Kindred Lament - Steel Pulse
Malcolm X - Dennis Brown

[Roman]

"Ready fi bus mi gun like Bin laden, ready fi bus mi gun like Idi Amin" Capleton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIFlgEBhN5Y

[capullo]

an obvious one - whole LP full of names...(strictly instrumental though)

http://www.roots-archives.com/release/1891

i've always wondered why Toussaint L'Ouverture rarely get mentioned in any reggae songs. He was (imo) the most important in the history of the new world/liberation of the black descendants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture

[AT2JA]

Uncle George - Steel Pulse
George Jackson - Steel Pulse
Tribute to the Martyrs - Steel Pulse