Tilden LeMelle (far left), chair of The Africa Fund, receives a check from Steven Van Zandt (Little Steven) (far right) of Artists United Against Apartheid for some $327,000 raised from artists royalties from the anti-apartheid album Sun City released by Manhattan Records. Next to Steven Van Zandt (Little Steven) is Arthur Baker. The money was used for three purposes: support for political prisoners and their families inside South Africa, educational and cultural needs of South Africans forced into exile, and the grass roots educational/outreach efforts of those working with the American Committee on Africa and TransAfrica. In January 1987 the American Committee on Africa and The Africa Fund...
Tilden LeMelle (far left), chair of The Africa Fund, receives a check from Steven Van Zandt (Little Steven) (far right) of Artists United Against Apartheid for some $327,000 raised from artists royalties from the anti-apartheid album Sun City released by Manhattan Records. Next to Steven Van Zandt (Little Steven) is Arthur Baker. The money was used for three purposes: support for political prisoners and their families inside South Africa, educational and cultural needs of South Africans forced into exile, and the grass roots educational/outreach efforts of those working with the American Committee on Africa and TransAfrica. In January 1987 the American Committee on Africa and The Africa Fund hosted a reception for African Nation Congress (ANC) President Oliver R. Tambo where LeMelle gave Tambo a check from The Africa Fund of more than $100,000 for ANC programs for exiles.
