Graduate student Dipo Oyeleye is doing his research on African musicians who are responding to the coronavirus through song. Musicians across the continent are composing songs that both warn and educate the public. Oyeleye speaks to Marco Werman from the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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