Johnny Clegg, RIP

Johnny Clegg died today. I got to talk to him in Sainte-Foy after a concert around 1989. He told me how to say Cetshwayo, a Zulu king, the right way.

Clegg (white trousers) with Savuka

I remember watching the band sign autographs - one woman turned the paper sideways and make her signature from the top to the bottom, and starting from the end of her name to the beginning. I asked her why, and she said sadly that she could not read. She made the shape of her signature perfectly legibly and I could read each cursive letter. The Apartheid regime intentionally undereducated black people.