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An excerpt from The New York Times:

Malawi Gets Its First Grammy Nomination, With Album by Prison Inmates

By NORIMITSU ONISHI

In a makeshift studio near a carpentry workshop, 14 prisoners and two guards recorded an unusual album of lessons and loss, sin and forgiveness. Now it is going up against the works of well-known performers in the world music category, earning the small, impoverished nation of Malawi its first chance at a Grammy Award, which will be announced Monday night.

“Many people across the world who had never heard of Malawi are now saying, ‘There’s a country called Malawi!’ ” said Chikondi Salanje, 32, who is scheduled to be released in August after serving five years for robbery.

His song, “Listen to Me,” advises children to heed their parents — something, he added, he had failed to do himself.

Produced by Ian Brennan, an American who has wandered the globe in search of original music, the album, “I Have No Everything Here,” has been an unexpected boon for an overlooked nation, and even more so for its penal system, long criticized for its sometimes cruel conditions.

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Here's wishing them great success!




https://zombaprisonproject.bandcamp.com/album/i-have-no-everything-here

TANZANIA

DEM. REP.

OF CONGO

Lake

Malawi

MALAWI

Lilongwe

ZAMBIA

Zomba

ZIMBABWE

MOZAMBIQUE

BOTSWANA

MADAGASCAR

SOUTH

AFRICA

SWAZILAND

LESOTHO

Indian Ocean

500 Miles

By The New York Times 

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