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Geoffrey Oryema

Geoffrey Oryema has been played on NTS shows including Sonika, with Makambo first played on 24 August 2020.

Geoffrey Oryema (16 April 1953 – 22 June 2018) was an internationally renowned Ugandan musician. In 1977 after the murder of his father, Erinayo Wilson Oryema, who was a cabinet minister in the government of Amin he began his life in exile. At the age of 24, and at the height of Idi Amin's power, Oryema was smuggled across the Ugandan border in the trunk of a car.

He sang in the languages of his youth, Swahili and Acholi, the languages of the lost country, the 'clear green…

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Exile
Geoffrey Oryema
Real World Records1990
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Land Of Anaka
Geoffrey Oryema
Real World Records1990
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Makambo
Geoffrey Oryema
Real World Records1990
Makambo
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