Music also expressed resistance and unity at an international level through an anthem shared by several African countries and the African National Congress. To represent the use of music in protest, the exhibition includes dramatic resistance posters that had been used to advertise concerts, photographs showing the oppressive effects of apartheid, and videos of various musicians and groups who expressed their resistance in song. Among the Sukama people who live south of Lake Victoria in northeast Tanzania, music and work are linked in a way that blurs the distinctions between farmers and musicians. Since pre-colonial times, the farmers of Sukumaland have been convinced that music can ease work and make people more productive. Drums, stringed instruments, and singers back the field workers and establish musical rhythms for tilling the soil.
Music accompanies the threshing and pounding of the grain as well.
Sometimes words composed by the workers or the musicians accompany the music. The Sukuma peoples acquire the skills necessary for this combination of labor and performance at an early age. As women work the farms, infants are on their backs, hearing the music and moving rhythmically with their mothers. In school, children are given small plots to care for and harvest, and early they form combination labor-movement groups emulating older children and adults. When crops are harvested, the musician-farmers take time to elaborate and perfect their synchronized labor and music routines.