Banning Eyre arrives on the red carpet, May 2015 (cropped)

Banning Eyre is a guitarist, writer, photographer, and producer specializing in the

music of Africa Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions. African music includes the genres amapiano, Jùjú, Fuji, Afrobeat, Highlife, Makossa, Kizomba, and others. Th ...

. He has produced the Peabody Award-winning radio show '' Afropop Worldwide'' and is author of several books on African music including ''AFROPOP! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music'' (with Sean Barlow), ''In Griot Time, An American Guitarist in Mali'', ''Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the Music That Made Zimbabwe'', the instructional guide ''Guitar Atlas: Africa'', and a report on

censorship Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments ...

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...

for the Danish human rights organization Freemuse entitled ''Playing With Fire, Fear and Self-Censorship in Zimbabwean Music''. He also contributed to the Cambridge Companion series volume on the

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

. Eyre lives in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, New York.

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