AP Quickie: 'Punk In Africa' Documentary To Be Released This Year (Finally)

The 'Punk In Africa' documentary has been in the works for a hot minute, with a first trailer surfacing a few years ago. It explores the History of the punk movement in three countries (South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe), the struggles, the pioneers, "race" relations and much more. The final release is scheduled for later this year. The official promo material explains: " 'Punk In Africa' traces this until-now untold story from its roots in the underground rock music of early 1970s Johannesburg, the first multi-racial punk bands formed in the wake of the Soweto Uprising and the militant anti-apartheid hardcore and post-punk bands of the 1980s to the rise of celebratory African-inspired ska bands which sprang up from Cape Town to Maputo in the democratic era of the 1990s. Today, an emerging generation of bands continue to draw on this legacy to confront the political challenges of contemporary Zimbabwe and the uncertain identity issues of the Afrikaans minority in South Africa."