“…perhaps the most dissident music scene of the 20th century: a multi-racial punk band in a fascist police state.”

National Wake’s full body of work, Walk In Africa 1979-81

National Wake released just one album, in 1981. It sold approximately 700 copies before being withdrawn under government pressure. The band subsequently disintegrated, but their influence could be traced in the racially mixed post-punk underground centered around Rockey Street in Johannesburg throughout the 1980s.