Recently reimagined by Buffy Sainte-Marie about Native rights, this anti-apartheid song by British reggae-pop band UB40 came out in 1986, eight years before the end of nearly five decades of racial segregation in South Africa. Found on the album Rat in the Kitchen and some greatest hits packages, "Sing Our Own Song" features the lines “We will fight for the right to be free / And we will build our own society” and “Forward Africa run our day of freedom has come / For me and for you Amandla Awethu.” Those Zulu words meaning “power” “is ours” were the African National Congress’s rallying cry. Buy the song here. — Karen Bliss