Since the early days of Donald Trump’s political rise, mental health experts have argued over the ethics of diagnosing the once-and-wannabe-again POTUS from a distance. There is one stark precedent, ...

In 1987, Ladysmith Black Mambazo released an album, Shaka Zulu, named after the 19th-century founder of the Zulu empire. The record was both the group's proper international debut (it was produced by ...

There is no figure in Zulu history more celebrated than Shaka. This early 19th-century warrior and cultural visionary single-handedly transformed the Zulu people from a disorganized band of less than ...

SOUTH AFRICAN a cappella harmony group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has called its new album "Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu," in recognition of the ruthless, innovative general who united smaller fiefdoms ...

THANKS TO FREQUENT RECORDINGS, tours and, perhaps still more than anything else, "Graceland," the pivotal, 1986 Grammy-winning collaboration with pop singer Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has ...