From the Rift Valley to Worthing, the raucous sound of protest Robert Winder's Notebook

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: November 13, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

As musical instruments go, the horn of the sable antelope is fairly rough and ready. If you blow into the hole carved near the point, a low moo echoes out of the other end, almost a yard away. It is a lofty, solemn sound - like a steamship in fog - but not very subtle; there are not too many concertos for sable antelope horn. And it is a noise heard only rarely in our political landscape. But at lunchtime on Thursday you could hear it booming around Westminster's Parliament Square, as part of a noisy musical protest by Jubilee 2000, the pressure group campaigning to cancel the debts owed by ...

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