How musical rivalry in Lesotho gave start to gang violence.
Fierce rivalry between followers of a novel, accordion-based, musical custom generally known as Famo has fuelled years of lethal gang warfare within the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho.
Financed by organised crime and gold salvaged from the realm’s disused – however nonetheless productive – apartheid-era mines, the murderous feuds have now spilled over into neighbouring South Africa.
So why is that this mix of conventional songs with Western devices inflicting such violent animosity and what will be achieved to convey it underneath management?
For Folks & Energy, filmmakers Naashon Zalk, Hamilton Wende and Tankiso Makhetha went to seek out out.
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