Manu Dibango

Manu Dibango (born December 12, 1933, Douala, Cameroon—died March 24, 2020, Paris, France) was a Cameroonian saxophonist, pianist, vibraphonist, and composer whose innovative jazz fusions and wide-ranging collaborative work played a significant role in introducing European and North American audiences to the sounds of West African popular musics between the mid-20th and the early 21st century. Dibango was born into a musical Protestant Christian household to parents who represented two historically rivalrous Cameroonian ethnic groups:...