I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

I lived for music since I could think.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.