Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane... It’s got no use on the inside. You’d better get used to that idea...

Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of good things. and no good thing ever dies.

Stephen King - The Shawshank Redemption - 1982

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope…African music can ignite the political resolve of those who might otherwise be indifferent to politics.

Nelson Mandela