Bikin Amandla

Amandla - bikin Haɗin Kai - wani bikin kiɗa ne na duniya wanda aka gudanar a Filin wasa na Harvard a Boston, Massachusetts, a ranar 21 ga Yuli, 1979. "Amandla: The Festival of Unity, 1979" , bobmarley.com.Emmett G. Price, III, Tammy Kernodle, Horace Maxille (eds), "A Timeline of Significant Moments in African American Music" , Encyclopedia of African American Music, Greenwood, 2011, p. xliv. Manufofin kide-kiden sun kasance don tallafawa da kuma murnar 'yancin Kudancin Afirka da kuma kokarin da mutane ke yi a Boston don kawo karshen wariyar launin fata a cikin iyalansu, makarantu, wuraren aiki da al'ummomi.

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Kalmar "Amandla" ta fito ne daga yaren Zulu na Afirka ta Kudu kuma tana nufin "iko",or "ƙarfi" . Babban wasan kwaikwayon ya kasance dan wasan reggae Bob Marley da ƙungiyarsa The Wailers . Marley ya yi gajerun jawabai da yawa a lokacin da ya sake yin hakan lokacin da ya zargi tsarin kuma ya yi ikirarin hadin kan Afirka da 'yanci cikin gaggawa. Wadannan jawabai a kan mataki ba sabon abu ba ne ga Marley, kamar yadda aka saba yi masa barazanar tantancewa yayin da yake magana a bayyane game da gazawar tsarin da shan wiwi, kamar yadda ya yi a bikin Amandla.

Daga cikin manyan masu shirya bikin sun kasance Janet Axelrod, Reebee Garofalo, Janine Fay, Shelley Neill, George Pillsbury da Kazi Toure.

Sauran masu wasan kwaikwayo sun kasance mashahurin Patti LaBelle, dan wasan jazz Eddie Palmieri, makadi Babatunde Olatunji, mai buƙa Yaya Diallo, ƙungiyar Afirka ta Kudu Jabula, Art of Black Dance da kuma ɗan wasan kwaikwayo Dick Gregory wanda ya ba da jawabi kafin wasan kwaikwayon Marley. Mel King, mai fafutukar kare hakkin bil'adama na Boston kuma mai adawa da wariyar launin fata, shi ne mai gabatar da kara.

Bob Marley da Wailers sune ƙungiyar karshe da aka ɗauka don yin wasan kwaikwayo. Sun sanya hannu ne don yin wasan kwaikwayo ne kawai makonni 3 kafin ranar bikin da aka tsara. Kusantar wasan bai tabbata ba saboda Al Anderson ya karya wuƙar guitar dinsa a lokacin atisaye. Ƙungiyar, mintuna kaɗan kafin lokacin wasan su, sun ƙi hawa kan mataki. Ɗaya daga cikin masu shirya bikin ya tuka mota zuwa Harvard Square zuwa "The Instrument Exchange" ya sayi guitar a kan dala 600. Abu mai ban sha’awa: ba a yarda da ‘yan sanda na gari su shiga cikin filin wasannin ba a lokacin bikin. Masu shirya bikin sun horar da mazauna Boston a tsaro na taro tsawon watanni shida.