Singer-song writer Stevie Wonder celebrated his 74th birthday this week by traveling to Ghana and receiving citizenship in the West African nation. The Grammy-winning music icon has a long, deep relationship with sub-Saharan Africa’s anti-colonial movements, as American Studies Faculty Affiliate, Professor Kevin Gaines, tells The World’s Marco Werman. Listen to the story below.

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