how Lesotho's popular music took a deadly turn : NPR | NYGazet

In Lesotho, a style of traditional accordion music called Famo has become entangled with deadly gang rivalries. Once the soundtrack of shepherds and migrant workers, today it's linked to killings, government bans — and a fight over cultural identity.

MASERU, Lesotho — Puseletso Seema is musical royalty in the tiny African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, where she's known as "the Queen of Famo" -– a popular genre of pastoral accordion music beloved by the country's people, the Basotho. But for all he... [5594 chars]