During the early 1980s, Oscar Peterson was composing The Africa Suite, a suite inspired in part by Nelson Mandela and the intense struggle for human rights in apartheid South Africa. As he completed pieces of the suite, he added three to his concert repertoire: Nigerian Marketplace, Peace (written with great hope for South Africa), and The Fallen Warrior (written for and dedicated to the imprisoned Mr. Mandela). Fortunately, some of these performances were captured on live concert recordings. The rest of the suite remained known only to Peterson and to the sound engineers who worked with him in his private studio while he was composing. (He loved using synthesizers for the wealth of instrumental sounds available at his fingertips. No pun intended.) These synthesizer tracks were recorded and the tapes carefully stored. Oscar, always looking forward, wrote more music, more than he would or could perform during his lifetime. He never performed The Africa Suite in its entirety.​