Johnny Clegg

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Music videos of Johnny Clegg with Juluka and Savuka live in Paris and Cape Town Good Hope Centre concerts. Some early SA music videos included.

Bo-hum! The Zoulou Blanc keeps his hand in with his take on Zulu style. A friendly, sing-along 16 track collection, this local story features songs composed by his early friend and sidekick Sipho Mchunu (on Gijimbeke), as well as his own handiwork (such as Bullets For Bafazana and Great Heart). Tracklist 1 December African Rain 2 Africa (What Made You So Strong) 3 Thamela - Die Son Trek Water 4 African Sky Blue 5 Utshani Obulele (Zulu Version) 6 I Call Your Name (Ngibiza Igama Lakho) 7 The Crossing (O Siyeza) 8 Jongosi 9 Impi 10 The Revolution Will Eat Its Children (Anthem For Uncle Bob) 11 Tough Enough 12 Great Heart 13 Scatterlings Of Africa 14 Cruel Crazy Beautiful World 15 Asimbonanga (Mandela) 16 Dela (I Know Why The Dog Howls At The Moon)

An extraordinary music special is the climax to One World week. The brainchild of ex-10cc drummer Kevin Godley, it features the first true global composition involving rock stars, classical musicians and artists from all over the world. Godley and a film crew toured the globe in just 44 days with a 'chain tape', asking musicians to add a new theme or idea. Artists include Sting, Dave Stewart, Peter Gabriel, Clannad, Lou Reed, Leningrad Symphony Orchestra, Afrika Bambaata and the Kodo Drummers.

Songololo: Voices of Change is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Marianne Kaplan and released in 1990.An examination of South Africa in the earliest days of the transition from apartheid to democracy, the film explores the power of music and art as tools of activism and social change, focusing primarily on writer Gcina Mhlophe and musician Mzwakhe Mbuli.

Jonathan Paul Clegg, was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist. He was a close friend of Nelson Mandela and brought his unique fusion of European Pop/Rock and traditional South African music to the rest of the world. This short (one hour) film showcases a number of his favourite Zulu street guitar songs and the distinctive and unusual way the guitar is played in traditional music in South Africa.

South African award-winning singer, songwriter activist, and anthropologist Johnny Clegg speaks at Dartmouth College.