'Evening, Watchers. Hope the week wasn't too hard on you, and that the weekend offers some pleasures. Sorry I'm late -- I was desperately trying to find some now-invisible blogs on African migrant workers... (and, arrgh! HTML errors). In any case, there's a beautiful crescent moon out there. Please take a moment to enjoy it.
I want you to meet my musical and spiritual inspiration, Johnny Clegg.
Johnny Cleggis one of South Africa’s most celebrated sons. He is a singer, a songwriter, a dancer, anthropologist and a musical activist...
Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale, Lancashire, to an English father and Rhodesian mother. Already in his youth, Johnny Clegg, a white, English-speaking person with what he called a "secular Jewish" upbringing in the UK, Israel, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), Zambia, and South Africa, became interested in Zulu street music and took part in traditional Zulu dance competitions.
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