"Gimme Hope Jo'anna" is a British anti-apartheid song written and originally released by Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eddy Grant in 1988, during the apartheid era in South Africa.

[8] Though the lyrics are worded as if the singer is addressing a person, "Jo'anna" is a reference to Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa and symbolic of the apartheid government.

[10] The song references Durban, Soweto, the Province of the Transvaal,[10] and was declared as the "national anthem of Mitchells Plain".

[13] Kate Davies from Number One noted that here, "he's taken the exquisite flavour of southern African music and shaped it into a bouncy song which no one will be able to hear without singing along to.

[14] Roger Morton from Record Mirror wrote, "Eddy is still proving that he's got balls by re-entering the pop fray with an anti-apartheid single ('Jo'Anna' as in Johannesburg) which will no doubt be considered 'too political' by radio.

[2] Later in the year, he was invited to perform the song in Hindi for the final of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament.

[18] In 2021, Grant said that "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" was the song he was the most proud of due to its widespread recognition and that people understood what it was about.

[2] The Guardian stated they felt some might find it inappropriate that an anti-apartheid anthem had been appropriated to sell yoghurts but acknowledged the main reason for the song was no longer relevant.