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Cameroonians are gathering to mourn at the home of Anne-Marie Nzie, the 84-year-old artist known as the "golden voice of Cameroon." Nzie died May 24.

Fans have been flocking to her home in a Yaounde neighborhood called the green city to pay tribute to the woman who made popular a style of music known as bikutsi.

Abraham Ngwa came with hundreds of members of her university music club.

"I grew up listening to Anne Marie Nzie, I grew up dancing to her tunes like 'Liberte.' [she sings a bit of the song] Anne Marie Nzie was the queen mother of Cameroonian music," Ngwa said.

Liberte was by far her most popular song. It was a song of rebellion, originally composed in the 1960s as Cameroon and other African countries were shaking off colonial rule.

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