| Paradise in Gazankulu | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1988 | |||
| Recorded | Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, CA, Evergreen Studios and MRC Studios, New York City, Powerhouse Studios, Johannesburg | |||
| Genre | Folk, World music | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Producer | Hilton Rosenthal, David Belafonte | |||
| Harry Belafonte chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | C+[2] |
Paradise in Gazankulu is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by EMI Records in 1988.[3] It was his final studio album, prior to his death in 2023. The album deals with the plight of black South Africans under the Apartheid system.[4] The album was re-released as an official mp3 download by amazon.com, and iTunes in the U.K. in 2010.
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "B". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved August 16, 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Allmusic entry for Paradise in Gazankulu Retrieved November 2009.
- ^ The Guide to United States Popular Culture William Labov, Ray Broadus Browne, Pat Browne - 2001 - Page 78 "Belafonte focused consistent attention on the racist apartheid system in South Africa; in 1988 he issued an album about the South Africa system, Paradise in Gazankulu."