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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Grant

https://www.discogs.com/es/Eddy-Grant-Barefoot-Soldier/release/5340965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpMgzWBpu2o

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid

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Pressure.
To care about.
In a subjection.
To sneak.
Neighbour border.
Now and again.
Fancy.
Preacher.
To overcome.
A blind.
Drums.
Tide.

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I like this song because it gives me a good feeling, and I like the rhythm.

I think everyone could learn something out of this song; the music can help to denounce the injustices.

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Although South Africa goverment banned this song,  it was immensely popular in South Africa, especially among the Afrikaner communities, who often failed to see the message of the song.

This song became the unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement,  but outside of South Africa, very few people understood the real meaning and they thought it was a simple reggae song.

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Gimme hope Jo'anna: The correct English is "Give me hope Joanna"

Jo'anna: Some people think Jo'anna is a reference to Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, but it doesn't make sense: that city didn't suffer the apartheid. In fact, Johannesburg opposed apartheid. Actually, Jo'anna refers to Johan Vorster, the Prime Minister at that time.

To run in a place = To control the place.

Durban y Transvaal: They are two cities with majority of “Afrikaans” (white people who descende from Dutch).

Soweto: It's the place of origin of Nelson Mandela, next to Johannesburg. During apartheid, when a black person crossed to a "white place" without authorization, he finished in prison or killed by the police.

Sun City: Johannesburg is also known as "the city of gold", as translated from the Zulu name "eGoli". Sun City was also a luxury hotel  in Johannesburg only for white people.

The Archbishop who's a peaceful man": It's a reference to Desmond Tutu, the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town who received the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against apartheid

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Grant wrote this song in honor of South African leader Nelson Mandela and against apartheid.

Apartheid: It was a system of racial segregation legalized by the govermment in South Africa.

This policy governed relations between the white minority and the nonwhite majority of South Africa during the 20th century. It separated people by race, and it was very oppressive to blacks.

Nelson Mandela: He was the leader of the fight against the apartheid. He was considered a terrorist, and he spent 27 years in a prison cell.

The legislation supporting apartheid was repealed in the early 1990s, and a new constitution was adopted in 1993.

In 1994, Nelson Mandela became the president of South Africa.

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Edmond Montague, "Eddy" Grant,  was born on 5th of March of 1948 in Plaisance, Guyana in South America.
Guyana is a little country near Venezuela whose independence was recognized by Great Britain in 1966. It's a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

When Eddy Grant was ten, he and his family emigrated to London.

Nowadays, Eddy Grant is a hero in his country, Guyana.

He never has had another hit like Gimme Hope Jo'anna.

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Well Jo'anna she runs a country

She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don't care about the rest at all
She's got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo'anna see
How everybody could a live as one

Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
'Fore the morning come
Gimme hope, Jo'anna
Hope, Jo'anna
Hope before the morning come

I hear she make all the golden money
To buy new weapons, any shape of guns
While every mother in black Soweto fears
The killing of another son
Sneakin' across all the neighbors' borders
Now and again having little fun
She doesn't care if the fun and games she play
Is dang'rous to ev'ryone

Refrain
She's got supporters in high up places
Who turn their heads to the city sun
Jo'anna give them the fancy money
Oh to tempt anyone who'd come
She even knows how to swing opinion
In every magazine and the journals
For every bad move that this Jo'anna makes
They got a good explanation

Even the preacher who works for Jesus
The Archbishop who's a peaceful man
Together say that the freedom fighters
Will overcome the very strong
I want to know if you're blind Jo'anna
If you want to hear the sound of drums
Can't you see that the tide is turning
Oh don't make me wait till the morning come

Refrain

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Name: Gimme Hope Jo'anna
Album: "Barefoot soldier."

Released:1988.
Recorded: Blue Wave Studios, Saint Philip, Barbados.
Genre: reggae-pop.
Songwriter: Eddy Grant.
Producer: Eddy Grant.

The song was banned by the South African government when it was released, but it was widely played in South Africa. This song became the anthem of the anti-apartheid movement.

It reached number seven on the UK Singles chart, becoming Grant's first top 10 hit for more than five years.

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" Gimme Hope Jo'anna" is a British anti-apartheid song written and originally released by Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eddy Grant in 1988, during the apartheid era in South Africa. The song was banned by the South African government when it was released, but was widely played there nonetheless. It reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Grant's first British top 10 hit for five years.

Eddy Grant is a British-Guyanese singer. He had chart hits in the 1980s, his most recent one prior to this single in 1984. "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" was targeted at the South African apartheid National Party government and apartheid culture after Grant had visited Africa. It included several references to South African culture. The song ends on an optimistic note of hope that the apartheid system would end soon. The song was Grant's first release in over a year.

"Gimme Hope Jo'anna" was not originally envisaged to become a hit. The song gained international attention and charted at number 7 in the UK Singles Charts and at number 1 in a number of European countries. It did not chart in the United States. It gained widespread popularity in the United Kingdom. The National Party government banned the song in South Africa upon release.

Though the lyrics are worded as if the singer is addressing a person, "Jo'anna" is a reference to Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa and symbolic of the apartheid government. "The preacher who works for Jesus, the Archbishop who's a peaceful man" is a reference to the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, who received the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against apartheid. The song references Durban, Soweto, the Province of the Transvaal, and was declared as the "national anthem of Mitchells Plain". It expressed hope for change in South Africa.

Bill Coleman from described the song as "sprightly pop with a meaningful anti-apartheid message". Kate Davies from noted that here, "he's taken the exquisite flavour of southern African music and shaped it into a bouncy song which no one will be able to hear without singing along to. Listen carefully to the lyrics-thought provoking stuff." Its inclusion on Grant's 1990 album, Barefoot Soldier was considered by Pensacola News Journal as a good song on a "pedestrian" album. Roger Morton from Record Mirror wrote, "Eddy is still proving that he's got balls by re-entering the pop fray with an anti-apartheid single ('Jo'Anna' as in Johannesburg) which will no doubt be considered 'too political' by radio. Seek it out then, for as well as being right-on-brother it's a grinning piece of Afro-dance blessed as ever with Sir Edmond's infectious pop touch." The song was Grant's last major hit to date.

It was sung at an African National Congress rally at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town before the 1994 South African general election, despite the ANC DJ attempting to get people to sing other peace hymns. The National Party used it during their campaign for the 1994 South African general election, despite having previously banned it. In 2008 Grant was invited to perform the song at the Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute, held in Hyde Park, London, Grant's first live stage performance for twenty years. He said that though the lyrics were outdated for their original meaning, they were still relevant due to cases of black South Africans attacking black Zimbabwean immigrants in the Alexandra township. Later in the year, he was invited to perform the song in Hindi for the final of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament. In 2021, Grant said that "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" was the song he was the most proud of due to its widespread recognition and that people understood what it was about. A reviewer in The Age said the song was "possibly the most appealing anti-apartheid song since The Special AKA's " Free Nelson Mandela". On release, The Guardian said it "promises moderately well" and that "it's not quite Electric Avenue", Grant's earlier release, "but he can still bash out a good tune".

In 2004, McCann-Erickson adopted a version of "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" as an advertising jingle for Yoplait's Yop yoghurt drink in the United Kingdom, adapted to "Gimme Yop, Me Mama", sung with Jamaican accents. There was criticism for Grant allowing his song to be used in such a way, with The Telegraph saying it had been "bastardised". The Guardian stated they felt some might find it inappropriate that an anti-apartheid anthem had been appropriated to sell yoghurts but acknowledged the main reason for the song was no longer relevant. Grant reportedly used the money from the campaign to help found his record label Ice Records with the intention of mentoring Caribbean musicians. Grant stated in 2018 it was easier to gain money from advertising than from record sales in modern times. The company later used the same advert in Canada.

The song was adopted by fans of the Wales national football team as a football chant, for their midfielder Joe Allen, titled "Give Me Hope Joe Allen", during their UEFA Euro 2016 campaign. In 2017, the British tabloid newspaper adapted the lyrics of the song into "Give Us Hope Johanna", to support the British tennis player Johanna Konta at Wimbledon and encouraged people to sing the new lyrics. The Namibian Sun also did the same for the Namibian Paralympic athlete Johanna Benson in 2020, in preparation for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, which were later postponed.

1. "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna" - 3:47

2. "Say Hello to Fidel" - 4:41

1. "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna"

2. "Say Hello to Fidel"

3. "Living on the Frontline" (live version)

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" Gimme Hope Jo'anna" is a British anti-apartheid song written and originally released by Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Eddy Grant in 1988, during the apartheid era in South Africa. The song was banned by the South African government when it was released, but was widely played there nonetheless.