Lesotho News News Lesotho » Music: Lesotho's Famo music: from shepherd songs to gang wars
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Published on: Monday 29 September 2025
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 ...
News Lesotho » Music: Lesotho's Famo music: from shepherd songs to gang wars
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Published on: Sunday 28 September 2025
In Lesotho, a style of traditional accordion music called Famo has become entangled with deadly gang rivalries. Once the soundtrack of shepherds... Lesotho's Famo music: from shepherd songs to gang ...