Black Americans Have Our Own National Anthem. ... 1906 they were calling it “an anthem for the Negro people.” (Sheet music for the song was imprinted with ... spaces to African Americans has ...

South Africa’s national anthem is a composite of the African liberation hymn Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika and the apartheid-era Afrikaans hymn Die Stem (The Call of South Africa).

National anthems often celebrate a country's triumph over its former oppressors, like the US national anthem. But in South Africa, the national anthem very consciously combines the music of the ...