Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)

The song was included in the 1994 live album Hope and in the 2001 collection Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela, released by Columbia Records.

[2] Black South African leader Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island in 1962.

[4] The lyrics of the song visualize Nelson Mandela "walking freely down the streets of South Africa,"[2] thus articulating a demand for his release from prison.

Nonetheless, it became a part of the number of musical voices protesting the apartheid regime,[8] and became an important song for the anti-apartheid movement in the late 1980s.

[3] It was declared to be "clean" by the South African government following Mandela's release from prison in 1990.

The song was included in the 1994 live album Hope and in the 2001 collection Grazing in the Grass: The Best of Hugh Masekela, released by Columbia records.