Soweto Blues is a tribute song about the tragic June 16, 1976 student uprising in South Africa.
The track was co-written by Hugh Masekela and Stanley Kwesi Todd of the Ghanaian band Hedzoleh Sounds.
The song protested the Bantu Education Act, which forced Black students to study in the oppressive Afrikaans language.
It represents pan-African solidarity, as it was recorded in Ghana by musicians exiled from apartheid South Africa.