The reaction from Mashaba and his right-wing ilk to clashes in downtown Jo’burg between migrant shopkeepers and raiding cops in early August 2019 was predictable: “Go back to where you came from.” But it wasn’t always like this, as the uplifting tale of an early 1960s song tells us.at a time when many African countries had gained independence from their colonial rulers. It was, as John Samsonblog, a “joyous celebration of the wind of change blowing through Africa”.
Born in Bulawayo in then Rhodesia, Masuka spent most of her school years in South Africa. In her teens, she composed and recorded close to 30 singles, several of them major hits. Ansell said Masuka wrote and recorded in multiple African languages; it is likely that the total of her compositions, all in African languages, exceeds 100.
The radical spirit of pan-Africanist Masuka’s songwriting led to long years of exile — the apartheid and Ian Smith regimes, in South Africa and Rhodesia, respectively, couldn’t handle her outspokenness. Her time away included 16 years in Zambia, performing and earning a living as an air hostess. It is likely that she recordedIt appeared on a 2004 compilation titled, put together by British DJ Andy Kershaw, who specialises in so-called world music.
In the lyrics, Masuka paid tribute to a number of African first ladies by name, singing that she wanted to visit them in their newly independent countries. “Mama Nkrumah” [who she also sings about in the song] was born
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