Synopsis
The music festival "Zaire '74" assembled America's biggest rhythm and blues talents - James Brown and the Mighty JBs, Bill Withers, B.B. King, the Spinners - along with top African acts such as Miriam Makeba and Afrisa. The festival was held in 1974 in Kinshasa, in conjunction with the boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman known as the "Rumble in the Jungle". SOUL POWER, with its unseen footage, plays like a time capsule, documenting the heady days when the musical crossover between Africa and America was just emerging.
