Botswana, Bra Hugh�s second home, mourns

Friday, January 26, 2018

Hugh Masekela getting down at Botswana Craft 2015 PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

South African trumpeter, singer and activist, Hugh Masekela died on Tuesday in Johannesburg aged 78. As the world mourns the passing of the legend, his music will always be symbolic in Botswana, a place he mostly regarded as his second home. Mmegi staffer MOMPATI TLHANKANE spoke to local veteran entertainers who crossed paths with Masekela in the course of his lengthy career

The jazz maestro, who spent three decades in exile during the apartheid era, had association with Botswana from way back, but his most notable was when he sought refuge in 1980.

After settling in the country, he set up a mobile recording studio and did two albums. Together with the Kalahari Band, Masekela recorded the technobush album at Woodpecker in 1984 and the album consisted of songs such as the evergreen Motlalepula (The rainmaker).

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