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Gwen Ansell, Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria

Louis Moholo-Moholo, a lion of South African jazz who used his drums to find freedom

Louis Moholo-Moholo's influence on international free jazz is immense. Ramon Moratalla/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer:

Ah, no! My name is this; I was born by the river? You want me to start like that? You want me to do all that stuff?

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