Listen to (or contribute to) Opo Strey's anti-colonial battle songs

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Listen to (or contribute to) Opo Strey's anti-colonial battle songs

As long as Dutch settlers and slave traders traveled around the world to exploit their ambitions on distant peoples, there was resistance to the Dutch drive for expansion. This fight against colonialism took many forms. One of them — from Suriname and the Caribbean islands to Indonesia — was music. In our podcast about the Brokopondo Reservoir you will hear music by the Surinamese socialist battle song group OPO. These songs are, for example, ab…