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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom stars Viola Davis as “Ma”. (Netflix)
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Ma Rainey robbed of complexity on a ‘Negro’ path leading nowhere

The life of blues pioneer Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey and her song Black Bottom have been turned into a film. Bongani Madondo laments its anticlimax

  • Bongani Madondo
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