You can always count on Hugh Masekela to speak frankly. Masekela turned 70 this year. And he still has a lot to say. In London for a concert with the London Symphony Orchestra to mark his birthday, he was interviewed by the BBC.
Masekela talks about who owns the economy; how forming a “unity government” with Apartheid’s rulers in 1994 was “… tantamount to Israel forming a government with the Nazis;” how he can’t affect politics, which is now “an international private club;” and he makes the statement quoted above. He also goes on about his preoccupation with bringing back “traditional ethnic cultural performance” better than the Hawaians. I don’t know what that last thing is.
It’s worth listening to.
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