Africa is a vast continent and its regions and nations have distinct musical traditions. Most importantly, the music of north Africa has a different history from that of Sub-Saharan
South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its long coastline stretching more
than 2 500km from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast, southwards around the tip of Africa, then north to the border with subtropical Mozambique on the Indian Ocean.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, born 18 July 1918,he is 91! He was President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African black president. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, In 1962 he was arrested and. Mandela served 27 years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Island.