“Ex-e-cuse Me Mama Mwale”. The 1980s and even the early ’90s belonged to Anna Mwale. While Zambia was recognised internationally for figures like Kenneth Kaunda and Kalusha Bwalya, Anna was quietly putting the country on the global music map, carrying its rhythms to Europe and South America with her hit Excuse Me, an African anthem that was unfamiliar, irresistible and impossible to ignore. But decades later, Anna Mwale’s story isn’t just about the music that made crowds dance, it’s also about a fateful night in a small restaurant in Germany, where she spotted a man in a white shirt with blue eyes, picked up her guitar and wrote a song for him on the spot. “Sometimes a woman has to...